Obsessive "Door Holes Lock Drill " Tin literary figure Someone certainly put a lot

Someone certainly put a lot of effort into it

Also a fabulous pair of cutout paper dolls with drawn faces (and their ghosts on the opposite page)

which makes me think a bit of a popsicle or lollipop on a stick

attached with old iron nails

who were also mythologically associated with St

Obsessive "Door Holes Lock Drill " Tin literary figure Someone certainly put a lotThis feels as much like a Jesse Howard sign as a tin used for storing hardware to me, seeming like a specific thought process or set of associative instructions playing out across the entire surface of it. I assume it held parts all relating to the installation of door locks, but who knows? Certainly obsessive, as if needing to be reminded over and over, from every side including the lid. And always hard to beat black lettering against creamy white