USA, Wonderfully Crude Red White and Blue Painted Cutout with Nails for Keys marionette heads lidded pewter box features exceptionally

lidded pewter box features exceptionally fine engraved details (thousands and thousands of tiny pin pricks

I find his drawings quite potent

which may not have lasted much beyond 1935 (I have found NO other examples of Mid-Land Novelty's work)--but the company's owner

It was signed and dated October 28

6 /8" x 5 5/8" and in very good

USA, Wonderfully Crude Red White and Blue Painted Cutout with Nails for Keys marionette heads lidded pewter box features exceptionallyTotal love for this one, wonderfully humble but also very proud! Seems it was made to serve as a key holder, with five nails lined up in a not very straight line across it. With USA carved into the surface, and an all over pattern of impressed marks lending texture to the fields of red white and blue. Perhaps a shop class or summer camp project; rather poignant. 11" x 6 3 4" x 3 4", perfectly aged, no losses and with two eye hooks plus and extra on