Sweet Old (Heavy!) Signed 1945 Sewer Tile Frog(a few losses/repairs) painted tin dominoes set makes for a fascinating read

makes for a fascinating read and portrait of turn-of-the-century American thinking about the rest of the world—very often predictably and overtly racist and imperialistic

I especially love that there is a preserved finger print between the 1 and 2 inch mark

Button eyes and nose

which I think adds to its appeal

Sweet Old (Heavy!) Signed 1945 Sewer Tile Frog(a few losses/repairs) painted tin dominoes set makes for a fascinating readThis grinning frog is an example of a sewer tile end of day pottery piece made using a mold, and was likely made by a factory worker to bring home as a gift, perhaps for a mother who liked to garden! I've seen other examples of end of day frogs, but much less common to see one painted a nice thick coat of green, and this one is signed on the bottom, in big proud capital letters: Roy Myers 1945. 7" l x 5" w x 3" t. Loss to one back foot, and a repaired