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Antique Vintage Frog Die Cut Mold




It is pretty hard to impart motion (and gooeyness) to a metal object, but this vintage die-cut mold certainly does.  I handled many frogs in my younger,  wet feet days, and I can assure you this is a perfect rendition of a frog.  Die-Cut molds have been used for a century and more.  All those colorful stickers from Victorian days?  Die-cut.  They cut leather, rubber, you name it into recognizable shapes Note sharp edges here.  A die-cut mold is stamped down hard to create a representation.  

This Frog has been used a long time.  It has a repair or two, and even some neon green goo stuck in the groove which probably came along late in his career.  This guy survived in the industrial machine swamp for decades...right up to the neon era.  

Vintage Frog Mold no date.  Collection Jim Linderman Follow the BOXLOT page on Facebook.

Antique Folk Art Drawing of an African-American Man c.1888 Georgia Origin Collection Jim Linderman



Antique Folk Art Drawing African-American Man, Georgia.  Dated 1888 Drawn on an envelope. Collection Jim Linderman
See also the book from Blurb ECCENTRIC FOLK ART DRAWINGS by Jim Linderman available in paperback or affordable instant ebook from Blurb.

Miniature Clay Antique Boot Folk Art and the First Santa Toy




Miniature clay boot created circa 1900 by the American Marble and Toy Company in Akron, Ohio. Little more than one inch tall, and produced by the thousands.  My understanding has always been that the factory burned down at some time and boxes of the tiny toys of clay were dug from the ruins.  Sure enough, according to the website American Toy Marble Museum  "...on one unlucky day in 1904, thirteen years after it had been incorporated, The American Marble & Toy Manufacturing Company burnt to the ground. This unfortunate event appeared, to some young pilferers, to be a great day for marble collectors: the next morning, every little boy in Akron came down to scavenge and fill his pockets with marbles. This was no play ground, far from being a safe place for such innocent children to be hanging (and looting) about. The police were called in to keep these treasure hunters from unlawfully appropriating the marbles, and soon after, the city ordered the charred remains of the factory to be buried."
 
Image BLUE SANTA & FRIENDS

Interestingly, the factory was also responsible for the very first SANTA CLAUS toy!  The little fella, known as "Blue Santa" was dug up in 2009...you can hear the story on NPR HERE, and the picture is taken from the BLUE SANTA AND FRIENDS site which provides the full story.

Tiny Stoneware Boot circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman
Courtesy Natalie Curley Antiques.
SEE ALSO THE SEWER TILE and SEWER PIPE FOLK ART POTTERY Website.



Self-Taught Naive Memory Painter Emily Lunde Merry Christmas




Merry Christmas drawing samples from the hand of Emily Lunde.  Like Grandma Moses, I suppose, Emily Lunde was "self-taught" "naive" and a "primitive" but as far as marketing was concerned, maybe not so much. As you can see from these sketches (and samples) for her paintings...they were carbon copies the artist embellished with ink later.  These were done not long after the Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists was published.  Perhaps that book brought her far more attention than she ever had, and she resorted to painting "Greatest Hits."

The drawings were mailed to a patron (not me) in 1991. At that time, she estimated having painted some 1,000 paintings.  She passed on in 2007, so there was likely time for plenty more.

Three hand drawn and "blueprint" drawings by Emily Lunde 1991
Collection Jim Linderman