Star Brand Threads Old Hand-carved Wooden Print Block (with Print on Front) old crumb brush not visible when a picture

not visible when a picture is placed on it

(Making this feel like a fairly progressive Reward of Merit

traditional Troyan style of glazing around the lip that it vintage Bulgarian

but I found this bunch of peaches altogether and they made me swoon

Star Brand Threads Old Hand-carved Wooden Print Block (with Print on Front) old crumb brush not visible when a pictureStar Brand thread was a brand of the American thread company, founded in late 19th c., with several large plants in New England that operated until the 1970s, including one in Milo, Maine. I'm not sure if this print block was used for printing advertising signs or for internal signage or what, but this is definitely the Star Brand font and I'd guess the carved wood block, and the print made from it and adhered to the flip side, date to the 1930s or