Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) contemporary vase One end of the box

One end of the box was mended at some point (card stock replacing wood at one end)

but in a bit of a jumping-around/associative sort of order

variegated blue glazed blue bowl has a fantastic shape

but also just a gorgeous object

Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) contemporary vase One end of the boxThis 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