Scarce and Very Cool 1920s Walter Johnson Baseball Game Spinner/Teetotem drag I love a portrait like

I love a portrait like this

IGA--Independent Grocers Alliance- was founded in 1926 by a group of small grocery retailers to facilitate collective marketing and supply chain access in order for these stores to be competitive

A lovely little hand thrown pottery bud vase with painterly pink iris and pale green leaves

making me think this was likely a gift from her husband

The hand-written caption appears to me to read "Beauty chastened by amnesia" --- I may very well be making that up

Scarce and Very Cool 1920s Walter Johnson Baseball Game Spinner/Teetotem drag I love a portrait likeJust in time for baseball season, this excellent and scarce teetotem, which was once part of the "Walter Johnson Baseball Game," an early baseball themed board game, published in 1925. The game was named in honor of the star pitcher for the Washington Senators, Walter Perry Johnson (1887 1946), nicknamed "the Big Train" for the blinding speed of his fastball. In the board game, each player would go to bat facing off against Johnson by spinning the