Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) plate but still shows lots of

but still shows lots of design pattern inspiration int he underside

it came--and comes--in a solid wood matte black painted with new cardboard back

I'm not a great one for holiday decorating

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It seems like quite an old one to me

Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) plate but still shows lots ofI'm not quite sure when this tin was painted silver and labeled with tall thin hand painted white letters reading "string," but it looks as if a good many years ago, and certainly seems product of a great depression sensibility, when string saving became a habit. The paper label still stretched across the bottom of the tin suggests it's quite an old one, I believe a tobacco tin. Found in Maine, with twine and a pencil inside, as seems just right. A