Terrific Old COPY Printing Block baseball counter and especially the stylized green

and especially the stylized green stem of the flower on this mid century

The couple met while attending the Kansas City Art Institute

I found it folded down the center line

It is the relative crudeness and immediacy of the carving that make it wonderful to me (and that face

remains most in tact--really nice against the black painted wooden to which it is mounted

Terrific Old COPY Printing Block baseball counter and especially the stylized greenI pass by hundreds if not thousands of old printing blocks for every one that I purchase, and this one appeals to me on all fronts. I think it's just a beautiful object to begin with, and the font on the capital letters, outlined in copper I believe, just right for the word. I also love it for the resonance the word "copy" carries here: copy referring to content, as in text, which the word "copy" itself is, and also as in copies, which the function of