Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) hand-painted wooden blocks a perfect object

a perfect object

Approx 5" t x 5 1/2" widest d

original varnished surface

a flowering plant in the coffee family with tiny white flowers

(Not sticky) Ink string and crisp

Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) hand-painted wooden blocks a perfect objectThis one made me laugh and I just couldn't resist, with the crudeness of the "Black Magic" painted across the face of the chalkware book especially doing it for me. I found it at a local antiques shop in my town of Ipswich, MA functioning as a bookend no price on it. Upon asking, I learned it was a memento from the recent filming of Stephen King's Salem's Lot in town a year or two ago, several scenes of which were shot inside the shop. (The downtown