SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron nail rake throw the wooden lettered cubes

throw the wooden lettered cubes and make as many words as you can

looseness to the binding

who signed and dated the back off one of them in 1859

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

SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron nail rake throw the wooden lettered cubesFound 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