Vintage Salesman Sample Keychains Display on Sky Blue Board Zen Buddhist monk with "Good Evening My Dear"

with "Good Evening My Dear" wonderfully scrawled down one side

feeling like another layer in holding it together

I might guess 1940s or so

10 3/8 x 8

while the overlaid edge of her coat highlights the hugging hands of the women to her left

Vintage Salesman Sample Keychains Display on Sky Blue Board Zen Buddhist monk with "Good Evening My Dear"I've come to think of what drives my attraction to many things as object empathy, and this salesman sample featuring 19 metal key chains, tops glued down, chains just dangling, a few with no chains at all, and the 20th spot empty provokes a lot of empathy! Feels a bit lonely and forlorn to me, in a poignant way, and good as a symbolic metaphorical object too no keys, access denied, lots of void! And with the one gold toned chain jumping out as if to