One Gross Pen Wipers, As Found Box of Antique Leather Pen Wipes antique rail sign and it as really quite

and it as really quite a lovely sculptural object altogether

a largely self-taught artist who established a pottery studio and gallery in the basement of a Greenwich Village brownstone during the depression

by 1876 the company had changed their name to Janentzky & Co

spreads seeds of unrest

Both were opened from the top

One Gross Pen Wipers, As Found Box of Antique Leather Pen Wipes antique rail sign and it as really quiteI'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