SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron handmade wooden cow and a long piano hinge

and a long piano hinge to the lid

concealed when box is closed

(There is also a tear to one side of one hip patch where her stuffing is visible too

(And I love the Russian doll sort of nesting effect

with the little wire-legged birds on either side riding along for company

SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron handmade wooden cow and a long piano hingeFound in Maine, but I believe the Herald American refers to the Chicago Herald American, published in Chicago 1939 1953. I spotted it pinned up on a white wall in an antiques shop and thought the much worn, faded and stained orange canvas extraordinary beautiful and perfectly, poignantly right for a newspaper seller's apron (from the days when the paper was the thing) bearing such an iconic feeling phrase. With the word "herald," as both noun and