Gorgeous Old Wooden Printer's Tray curio shelf I especially love the effect

I especially love the effect of the old labels on the wood

with cut out letters

6" tall x 5 3/8" at widest and in excellent vintage condition

but hard to see without a magnifier and otherwise in great shape

)  This one is by Don Curreri (1930-2014)

Gorgeous Old Wooden Printer's Tray curio shelf I especially love the effectThis beautiful thing. I'm not quite sure how all it was used that yielded this incredible surface, but surely some combination of paper and ink and glue or varnish, all hardened now, not sticky, and just truly gorgeous. This is one of a number of objects I took away with me from a recent visit to the studio of well known Providence based Richard Fleischner, which I value all the more for it having spent at least several decades living in his world,