Beautiful Old Blue Oil Can eye doctor tool 8 1/4" x 6 3/4

8 1/4" x 6 3/4

or—as he himself has travelled at least one ocean and more than a century—perhaps to be tucked into a suitcase as a good luck talisman

Not really my usual thing

popping all the more against the soft black of the tiles

with solutions the the rebuses on the undersides

Beautiful Old Blue Oil Can eye doctor tool 8 1/4" x 6 3/4I've never paid much attention to oil cans, but I have of late been paying a lot of attention to found color, especially on old metal things (I've included a photo of an arrangement of this and a couple of other recent finds that I just love together), and the blue on this just struck me as super beautiful, and it as really quite a lovely sculptural object altogether. 7 1 2" x 3 7 8" x 3" in diameter. Very good condition, lid screws off easily,