Hand-painted Made Do Double-sided Blackberries Sign on Metal Lid contemporary but deep enough to use

but deep enough to use a small serving bowl

Each one was hand drawn in pencil and colored pencil or crayon on scraps of stiff paper (it seems maybe some old trade cards)

and wooden dowels for legs--was made in 1935 by Mid-Land Novelty Co

11 1/8" x 9 1/8" x 1"

She certainly had skills

Hand-painted Made Do Double-sided Blackberries Sign on Metal Lid contemporary but deep enough to useI really love the immediacy of this old hand painted blackberries sign, and the fact that 'ies' in berries is a little scrunched up, and the division between black on one line and berries on the next, making one think about the amazing color of ripe blackberries, and also the blackness of the painted letters themselves. Plus this yellow, which is just about exactly the color of hotdog mustard, and then the nearly identical white letters against black