Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY peg leg stool or paint or wallpaper--or carve

or paint or wallpaper--or carve

The watercolor is early

I know that this dragon fragment from an incredibly intricate mixed metal overlay on an antique Asian table

with a great mustard yellow glaze

but there is a metal post at the end for sticking it into something now

Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY peg leg stool or paint or wallpaper--or carveIn considering how to explain why this c. 1960s 70s photo badge struck me, it occurred to me that driver's licenses and employee badges are a bit like modern portrait miniatures, and perhaps the most enduring portraits of ourselves most of us have. And, in thinking about the history and future of factory labor in this country, the employee badge of young male worker at the Allegheny Steel Company c. late 1960s early 70s feels pretty poignant. (He