T-118 - Old Bottle, New Lid - SOLD

- SOLD

Blue glass and choke cherry 
4” x 6¼” including lid
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine        $32

This old Noxema jar was in the woods of a Maine farm probably abandoned during the great depression. It was half buried  in the damp red dust from rusted-away cans, a memory of the time when that’s what you did with trash that would not compost or feed a pig.

The lid is from the crotch of a choke cherry that fell not far away. Down in the log was a grown-over soft spot, still showing a rim of bark and now filled with black epoxy resin. The lid fits the jar opening but is not screwed down and simply lifts off.

Cost each: $32.00
Unit size: One of a kind

- SOLD