Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) tinned with gray only on the

with gray only on the tail feathers

It's that time of year when a pocket flask seems most in order

I believe these likely date to the 1930s-40s or so

with the tiniest bot of loss to corners

and a Pepe le Pew-looking "P

Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) tinned with gray only on theThis one made me laugh and I just couldn't resist, with the crudeness of the "Black Magic" painted across the face of the chalkware book especially doing it for me. I found it at a local antiques shop in my town of Ipswich, MA functioning as a bookend no price on it. Upon asking, I learned it was a memento from the recent filming of Stephen King's Salem's Lot in town a year or two ago, several scenes of which were shot inside the shop. (The downtown