Gold Painted Vintage Salesman Sample Shopping Cart cartoons ) Perfectly set against this

) Perfectly set against this hand-painted wallpaper-y ground of smoky purples and golds and greens

The quite depressing lyrics tell the story of a man and his hound Jim

which makes me think they were likely made to send as Christmas cards

reminding me somehow of old New York subway tiles

Gold Painted Vintage Salesman Sample Shopping Cart cartoons ) Perfectly set against thisHow could I resist? This one appears to me to be a true salesman sample, and not a particularly small one either! With moving parts just like a full scale one, including detachable basket at front that folds open and closed and a bottom shelf under the cart that raises and lowers from the far end. It may be at a later point that it was painted gold but all the better as a symbol for American consumerism! All sorts of contexts this would be good in,