Huge Vintage British Stick Pin Roll (Beautiful Readymade) cat doorstop and especially love the face

and especially love the face on this one

The Andersen Studio has a long history as a pioneer ceramic design and slip casting studio producing functional and decorative objects

and a poem on the other hailing safe return

and edging all the way around

On the side of the chop is incised text

Huge Vintage British Stick Pin Roll (Beautiful Readymade) cat doorstop and especially love the faceI've been eyeing antique pin cushions lately where someone's name or a message was painstakingly spelled out in pins, which has me thinking about the decorative potential of pins stuck in all sorts of things. But, also, I think this huge roll of them is just a beautiful readymade object as it is. I also like the paper wrap around the outside reading "pins pins pins." These were made by Dennison and I believe date to the 1950s or so. 5 1 4" in diameter