Folk Art Painted PET Can Pierced by Can Opener vintage patterns and are great just treated

and are great just treated as blocks spread out on a tabletop for making free form designs

I didn't realize quite how great this box was until I went to pack up a whole bunch of odds and ends of a variety of shapes and sizes---they all  wound up fitting neatly and safely inside of it

Quite finely done

I often think in terms of what they might inspire or give rise to

which I have to think was cut down from a longer sign

Folk Art Painted PET Can Pierced by Can Opener vintage patterns and are great just treatedAnother fun one, which definitely, to me at least, begs the question of what possessed someone to make it; perhaps they were quite tired of evaporated milk and it gave great pleasure to pierce this wooden can with and put it on the shelf! The opener pick is a real one, c. 40s 50s, and the version of the can rendered 1960s or so. Perhaps just the right gift for one's favorite dairy farmer, or favorite pet of any sort! Actual can sized, with real pick;