Iconic Old Solid Brass Hourglass Printing Block mid-century Teppich and if not to be

and if not to be used to actually practice one's signaling methods

and so making it an especially fun one to wear

including spotted dog

and could handily accommodate a little note pad and pencil for keeping score

made by Creative Playthings in 1955

Iconic Old Solid Brass Hourglass Printing Block mid-century Teppich and if not to beMy attraction to printing blocks is not really related to their printable function; rather, I'm attracted their objecthood and specifically interested in ones bearing text or graphics that have all sorts of resonances. So this excellent old solid brass one bearing a perfectly rendered hourglass, as what is more symbolic, and iconic, than that? (I might lay it on its side in a gesture of trying to slow things down!) Just an excellent small thing, and