SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron nail rake and like little jewels

and like little jewels

but it's the flip side that is the really special one to me

who signed and dated the back off one of them in 1859

(Easily removed of course should one want to treat it otherwise

and all the better as applied to representing an eight point star flanked with eight angels adamantly gesturing (as if performing semaphore

SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron nail rake and like little jewelsFound in Maine, but I believe the Herald American refers to the Chicago Herald American, published in Chicago 1939 1953. I spotted it pinned up on a white wall in an antiques shop and thought the much worn, faded and stained orange canvas extraordinary beautiful and perfectly, poignantly right for a newspaper seller's apron (from the days when the paper was the thing) bearing such an iconic feeling phrase. With the word "herald," as both noun and