The Hard We Do Now, The Impossible Later, Old Handmade Wooden Sign ceramic ikebana vase with the letter and numbers

with the letter and numbers I assume referring to the bottle or jar type (and there are more handwritten notations on the back side

like this silver cat pin

which I have shot here with some magnification

I think it might have been sitting for the past 50 years or so

The Hard We Do Now, The Impossible Later, Old Handmade Wooden Sign ceramic ikebana vase with the letter and numbersI don't usually go for signs featuring words to live by, but liked both the message and the manner of this old sign so much, there was no equivocation! Plus this perfect combo of silver and the best blue, with Art Deco style stenciled lettering, which makes me think of the roaring twenties about to run into the impossibility of the Great Depression. It does seem possible it is indeed that old, I'm really not sure; definitely it has a fair amount of