Ken Goldstrom 1975 Man with Dink and Cigarettes Ceramic Bas Relief Tile handcover antique notebook with very light wear and

with very light wear and minor aging/ warping to the cardboard roof

and the beautiful piece of amber is set off perfectly by the finely detailed intertwining silver leaves

Instant coffee: 3 7/8" t x 3 1/2"d

and I might think the point of the hook itself was used to pyrograph his name on front

Ken Goldstrom 1975 Man with Dink and Cigarettes Ceramic Bas Relief Tile handcover antique notebook with very light wear andThis is one of three hand painted vintage 1970s ceramic tiles by Ken Goldstrom that I just found in Maine, and which I think are just right and just terrific. Based in Beverly, MA, Goldstrom has been creating small scale ceramic sculpture and tiles in a similar manner for many decades (unbeknownst to me until now), which he describes as "typically playful, sometimes whimsical, sometimes dark." In this one, our man seems a bit at the end of his rope,