Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) plate and a little along the

and a little along the left edge of the paint

but still shows lots of design pattern inspiration int he underside

might unfold around him

Some staining along the spine and some brittleness to the paper but other than the loose covers the binding is holding fine

Perfectly aged condition

Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) plate and a little along theI'm not quite sure when this tin was painted silver and labeled with tall thin hand painted white letters reading "string," but it looks as if a good many years ago, and certainly seems product of a great depression sensibility, when string saving became a habit. The paper label still stretched across the bottom of the tin suggests it's quite an old one, I believe a tobacco tin. Found in Maine, with twine and a pencil inside, as seems just right. A