SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron handmade wooden cow with the little wire-legged birds

with the little wire-legged birds on either side riding along for company

making this cricket stool look like something of a pre-historic creature

(And I love the Russian doll sort of nesting effect

(There is also a tear to one side of one hip patch where her stuffing is visible too

SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron handmade wooden cow with the little wire-legged birdsFound 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