Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) contemporary vase it seems attaching a second

it seems attaching a second layer of paper over the spine

And rubbings of pennies on the final pages

3” deep at base

variegated blue glazed blue bowl has a fantastic shape

which makes it useful one for holding rings or earrings or pills or whatever

Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) contemporary vase it seems attaching a secondThis one made me laugh and I just couldn't resist, with the crudeness of the "Black Magic" painted across the face of the chalkware book especially doing it for me. I found it at a local antiques shop in my town of Ipswich, MA functioning as a bookend no price on it. Upon asking, I learned it was a memento from the recent filming of Stephen King's Salem's Lot in town a year or two ago, several scenes of which were shot inside the shop. (The downtown