The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card house numbers sign There is light wear visible

There is light wear visible around the lip in the form of some very tiny stains and perhaps a few very tiny nicks (noticeable only upon very close inspection)

and one could use it as a tasting or a serving spoon--or

One finds a fair number of handmade doggy doorstops from the 1940s and 50s (I wonder if they were something people made in shop class

gentle painting

The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card house numbers sign There is light wear visibleToo fun to resist, and I thought surely this one would make the perfect gift for the runner of an auction house, or for someone regularly on the other end of things, watching things as they are going going gone! I really love the increasingly distressed face of this child, and it seems to be quite a rare one an early trade card for the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, which would go on top become A&P. (Founded in 1859 as "Gilman & Company", within a