SOLD Keep Our Streets Beautiful, 1950s Buick Advertising Mini Tin Trash Can Give Away gold leafed With a great presence

With a great presence

and a small loss to bottom left corner

Plus the pewter walnuts themselves are just great objects

There is one nick in the wood of the frame at the center of the left edge

SOLD Keep Our Streets Beautiful, 1950s Buick Advertising Mini Tin Trash Can Give Away gold leafed With a great presenceA search on this one reveals a few others out there, though they seem to have gotten pretty scarce made as an advertising giveaway for Buick cars, c. 1950s. Pretty clever, with really excellent stencil painted lettering; feels like a perfect little icon of mid century American optimism and suburban expansion. 3 5 8" t x 2" w x 2" d. Good condition with a little rusting here and there.