SOLD Keep Our Streets Beautiful, 1950s Buick Advertising Mini Tin Trash Can Give Away cream and red I never can resist German

I never can resist German Erzgebirge houses when they are nice old ones like this with great color and lots of little windows

and to the features of the face especially

photographic conventions doesn't tell me for sure whether this muscular bare-chested young man was a boxer

making it feel part of a different neighborhood

Everything about this homely monkey hand puppet seems just to cry out "love me

SOLD Keep Our Streets Beautiful, 1950s Buick Advertising Mini Tin Trash Can Give Away cream and red I never can resist GermanA search on this one reveals a few others out there, though they seem to have gotten pretty scarce made as an advertising giveaway for Buick cars, c. 1950s. Pretty clever, with really excellent stencil painted lettering; feels like a perfect little icon of mid century American optimism and suburban expansion. 3 5 8" t x 2" w x 2" d. Good condition with a little rusting here and there.