Spice, Clams and Pickels, Old Hand-carved Wooden Groceries List with Pegs worlds biggest show Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Really a smart looking old chess or checkerboard with red and black painted squares numbered in white

Copper on wood block

It was created (and signed in syllabics) by carver and printmaker Basil Aptanik (b

Spice, Clams and Pickels, Old Hand-carved Wooden Groceries List with Pegs worlds biggest show Happy New YearSuch a fun one which was definitely made to be used, with carved pegs for keeping track of whether eggs or lard, butter or tomattoes [sic] were needed. I I love a good list, all the better a carved one, and really like the mix of items here, and the order in which they appear revealing an active thought process of ticking through the necessities, but in a bit of a jumping around associative sort of order, as is very human soap to soup, matches to oil