Renate Scheer Kalkofen Mid-Century Ab Ex Print "Still Life," 1962, ed. 5, Purples old porcelain enamel street sign and I believe it is

and I believe it is strips of some sort of plastic that run along its spine

It is made of semi-porcelain

I've found some other carved wooden feet like this one that served as ashtrays

Really beautifully made (this piece reminds me very much of the work of Anderson Design Studio in Maine) with a resist technique used for the surface decoration I believe

I just love the look of this old skeeball board

Renate Scheer Kalkofen Mid-Century Ab Ex Print "Still Life," 1962, ed. 5, Purples old porcelain enamel street sign and I believe it isThere is not a whole lot out there about Renate Scheer Kalkofen (1935 2013) who created this stunner of a print in 1962, as well as several others I am listing from around the same time. I do know she was a graduate of Tufts University and spent much of her life in the nearby Boston suburb of Belmont, where there are records of her exhibiting from the 1960s and 70s all the way through 2011. And I know from the dealer I purchased the prints from that