Oversized Souvenir "Lucky Penny" Boston, MA antique sewing machine attachments box and clearly their good design

and clearly their good design sense carried through to their signage

giving it strength and a nice sheen

and on the lower right appears to be a signature in red--a rarity among pith paintings as I understand it

5 3/4" x 3 1/4" tall x 1/2" thick

Oversized Souvenir "Lucky Penny" Boston, MA antique sewing machine attachments box and clearly their good designI love this large, heavy (I'd guess pewter) souvenir Lucky Penny just as an object; nice in the hand, and even better on the desk as a paperweight. This specific image of profiled figure in feather headdress dates to 1919 of not earlier, but these were produced as souvenirs from then until at least through the end of the 1930s. I've found souvenir pennies matching this one from everyone from Niagara Falls to the New York World Fair; this one is from