Painted Cardboard Candy Container Man, Presumed c. 1920s German silver-plate and also just as a

and also just as a sculptural object

This is the smaller of two abstract vintage watercolors I'm listing by the same unknown artist

It was my grandmother's

and one more equidistant up from the bottom

though it appears to be unsigned

Painted Cardboard Candy Container Man, Presumed c. 1920s German silver-plate and also just as aThough he's lost a fair amount of paint over the past 100 years or so, I really love little thing, which is an old cardboard candy container. I've learned that these were quite a thing, some made of papier mache and some of hard pressed cardboard, which I believe this is, stapled along seams on the sides and top. At the bottom is a wooden stopper, which I don't think is original, but which works just fine for the purposes of plugging the bottom and