One Gross Pen Wipers, As Found Box of Antique Leather Pen Wipes antique rail sign and what it means to

and what it means to be a Mason

One photo shows them with a nickel for scale

and there is a tiny loss of lacquer (which is real

and it as really quite a lovely sculptural object altogether

spreads seeds of unrest

One Gross Pen Wipers, As Found Box of Antique Leather Pen Wipes antique rail sign and what it means toI've never come across a box of these before, nor had the dealer I purchased them from, who has seen just about everything! I did just happen (scrolling through ebay) to come across a tiny naive watercolor, mid 19th c., painted on a round of leather just like one of these making me think, as does the packaging, that this box full is about that old. I just love this as a found object, with excellent green paper "Penwipers" label on plain cardboard box