Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) hand-painted wooden blocks How much I love this

How much I love this seal

where clearly it hung for many many years

original varnished surface

I can't feel it at all with my fingers

Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) hand-painted wooden blocks How much I love thisThis 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