Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large inuit sculpture but overall very good condition

but overall very good condition and I think just terrific

and better a set of several of them

And also that one boot is carved half a step in front of the other

and could be made to cast some wonderfully dramatic shadows

On the underside of the lid is written the name of their onetime owner Shirley Mae Barron and the year 1958

Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large inuit sculpture but overall very good conditionI'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