Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large inuit sculpture The fineness of this example

The fineness of this example makes me think it has a good bit of age to it

a truly lovely object

On the underside of the lid is written the name of their onetime owner Shirley Mae Barron and the year 1958

and could be made to cast some wonderfully dramatic shadows

textures make this feel as much like sculpture as a functional object

Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large inuit sculpture The fineness of this exampleI'm not quite sure when this tin was painted silver and labeled with tall thin hand painted white letters reading "string," but it looks as if a good many years ago, and certainly seems product of a great depression sensibility, when string saving became a habit. The paper label still stretched across the bottom of the tin suggests it's quite an old one, I believe a tobacco tin. Found in Maine, with twine and a pencil inside, as seems just right. A