CAKE, Perfectly Pink (Marie Antoinette-esque) 10 Inch Antique Stencil Painted Tin vintage wooden animals like these wooden picture dominoes

like these wooden picture dominoes

though otherwise in good antique condition

000 years and is commonly used to make animal figures (horses

with these beautiful reinforcements added to the top two corners long ago--just what was needed but nothing more to keep it holding sturdily together for another hundred years or so--and I'd think it has another hundred yet in it now

a bit lighter/brighter and more radiant than photos convey

CAKE, Perfectly Pink (Marie Antoinette-esque) 10 Inch Antique Stencil Painted Tin vintage wooden animals like these wooden picture dominoesI have a special weakness for old cake tins and chests, specifically those that have CAKE stenciled across their fronts. I think because CAKE is one of the best words ever, and also because it makes the tin feel like a present and a promise of marvelous delights. And this one, in old pink paint and rust here and there, seems about as perfect an encapsulation of the inherent tensions within Marie Antoinette's famous cake eating mantra as could be. Very