Burgess, Fobes & Co. Portland, Liquid Paint Antique Advertising Paperweight, c. 1890s Jack Kerouac poster you are in a period

you are in a period of personal satisfaction

Structurally sound and not at all shedding

One sees old knives and butcher blocks with “BREAD” carved in their handles or around the edges

(It seems possible the nails were originally left in then later removed

A great gift

Burgess, Fobes & Co. Portland, Liquid Paint Antique Advertising Paperweight, c. 1890s Jack Kerouac poster you are in a periodA very scarce one; I can't find another of these out there anywhere, but I did find some printed matter from Burges, Fobes & Co, a Portland, Maine based manufacturer and wholesaler of paints. The company was founded in 1858 by S. W. Wilson and Henry H. Burgess, known as Wilson and Burgess, who began by grinding lead in a barn in the area of Munjoy, Beckett, and Wilson streets in Portland. The company would later build a large factory building on the