Vintage Our Leader Toy Soldier Broom Label 1930s-1940s Art Deco Marching Band Chromolithograph NOS Advertising Art 🧹 mid_century_advertising their fronds sweeping outward over

their fronds sweeping outward over pale

and understanding why they appear on a Japanese-made toy badge tells you a great deal about the cultural moment in which this badge was produced

The main vulnerability is the printed surface

with "Finest Quality" in a graceful serif script stretched across either side

was granted the right to resume operations and export in 1947

Vintage Our Leader Toy Soldier Broom Label 1930s-1940s Art Deco Marching Band Chromolithograph NOS Advertising Art 🧹 mid_century_advertising their fronds sweeping outward overWhat Survives When Everything Was Made to Be Thrown Away? There is a particular kind of wonder that comes over you when you hold something that was never supposed to last. Not a portrait painted for posterity, not a commemorative medallion struck for a veteran's mantelpiece but a broom label. A rectangle of printed paper engineered to be pasted onto a wooden handle in a hardware store stockroom, sold to a housewife or a janitor, and swept into