No Relief! (22) Old Cast Iron Found Object antique American photo The painted face

The painted face

a steam liner with the words "the Love Boat" on the side

I'm honestly not certain how the wrinkled surface on these was achieved

with a small scratch to the surface of one of one of the lighter swallows

The basketry on all is finely done with sweet grass and ash splint

No Relief! (22) Old Cast Iron Found Object antique American photo The painted faceI have no idea what this was once attached to; it doesn't seem deep enough to have been a handle or pull perhaps it was a salesman sample of sort, number 22 of who knows how many? Whatever the case, it's a perfect found object to me, with the No (as in No. 22) next to the RELIEF reading as No Relief which of course often seems to be the case these days on numerous sorts of levels! (At the same time one might read it Relief in its 22nd form, and as I