1930s Ford Bulb and Fuse Kit Tin Turned First Aid Box patented perhaps next to the matte

perhaps next to the matte green of arts and crafts pottery

typical of these toys

and what first came to my mind when I saw it was Willa Cather's My Antonia

the legible one features a poem in the tiniest of handwritten cursive (I had to shoot under magnification to read it) as follows: “Not fawned by winds / Of a summer parterre / When gales are but sighs / Of an evening air / Our delicate

with traditional costumes representing all of the states of the Soviet Union at the time

1930s Ford Bulb and Fuse Kit Tin Turned First Aid Box patented perhaps next to the matteI love this tin, which originally housed an emergency bulb and fuse kit, but which someone long ago I assume filled with emergency first aid supplies, painting red crosses on three sides and stringing wire through punched holes in the bottom such that it could be mounted somewhere. To my eye, those fat red crosses against the blue are pretty gorgeous, all the better for the Ford logo right underneath. Necessity is so often the mother of beauty I do