SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron nail rake and all the better as

and all the better as applied to representing an eight point star flanked with eight angels adamantly gesturing (as if performing semaphore

but I'll forever look for more as I think they're fantastic--excellent looking and challenging for the brain as well as the manual dexterity

with some scattered smudges and toning

but it's the flip side that is the really special one to me

and like little jewels

SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron nail rake and all the better asFound in Maine, but I believe the Herald American refers to the Chicago Herald American, published in Chicago 1939 1953. I spotted it pinned up on a white wall in an antiques shop and thought the much worn, faded and stained orange canvas extraordinary beautiful and perfectly, poignantly right for a newspaper seller's apron (from the days when the paper was the thing) bearing such an iconic feeling phrase. With the word "herald," as both noun and