Think and Surprise All of Us! Perfectly Aged Wooden Desk Sign curated antiques which were made famous by

which were made famous by the Victorian novelist Willian Harrison Ainsworth in the novel Rookwood

with a bit of running original to the making

but the wood has such a great dry patina to it

and this 1925 bronze American Legion School Award does so quite beautifully I think

super crisp image of the these three beautiful

Think and Surprise All of Us! Perfectly Aged Wooden Desk Sign curated antiques which were made famous byNo way could I resist this one, which feels ever apt and useful and good in all sorts of contexts. It looks to my eye (with magnifier) like it was stencil painted then varnished over, with the tiny U. S. A painted by hand. There is a faint mark at lower right, really only visible in a certain light, that looks to me to read "Sunken Gardens," so perhaps this was a souvenir from St. Petersburg, Florida? In any case, perfectly aged with tons of