Vintage "Grand Champion" Shuffleboard Salesman Sample by American letter opener A mid-century illuminated devotional artwork

A mid-century illuminated devotional artwork depicting Christ as the Good Shepherd

Such implements were essential in slaughterhouses and rural farmsteads across America

The restrained ornament and solid construction place it within the transitional period between late Victorian embellishment and early 20th-century refinement

and surreal creatures coexist in vivid hand-painted form

this early 20th-century grinder represents the height of American hardware craftsmanship

Vintage "Grand Champion" Shuffleboard Salesman Sample by American letter opener A mid-century illuminated devotional artworkc. 1940s; American Shuffleboard Co. Union City, NJ Painted wooden salesman sample advertising model of the American Shuffleboard Co. "Grand Champion" table, mounted on a streamlined Art Deco style display plinth. The miniature table features red and cream painted rails with turquoise striping, finely turned legs with contrasting pinstriped decoration, and a scored faux wood playing surface replicating the layout of a regulation shuffleboard table. The