SOLD WPA Educational Architectural Model: Painted Chalkware Egyptian House, 1930s/early 1940s antique lawn aerator shoes weathered surface

weathered surface

I've been really loving diving into new genres of things

but I don't think ever one as large as this

It measures 5" long x 1 7/8" wide x 1" tall

neither quite round

SOLD WPA Educational Architectural Model: Painted Chalkware Egyptian House, 1930s/early 1940s antique lawn aerator shoes weathered surfaceI think I've found exactly two WPA painted chalkware architectural models over the years they're pretty scarce, and I think really cool. Created by artists employed under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project (WPA FAP) during the period @ 1935 1943, these were are handmade miniature replicas of historic or architecturally significant buildings which were intended to serve as visual teaching tools (for display in libraries,