Battered Vintage Sandpaper Surface Wooden Skate Deck with Druggie Cartoons carte de visite This antique Japanese lacquered tabletop

This antique Japanese lacquered tabletop cabinet --Kodansu

I purchased them from a favorite dealer in my neck of the woods--with a wonderful eye for the very most tender things

with "Matches" subtly carved into the surface of the match pocket

with some toning

with that higher pair of eyes evincing those of an owl

Battered Vintage Sandpaper Surface Wooden Skate Deck with Druggie Cartoons carte de visite This antique Japanese lacquered tabletopNot my usual sort of thing, but I do try to be open to everything, and the hand drawn cartoons on the face of this much battered skateboard deck struck me as contemporary versions of a antique folk art sandpaper drawings! And, like those naive 19th century drawings of landscapes and castles and sailboats on water, these drawings of personified bong and joint and bottle of pills are very much of their time! The reverse is really quite beautiful too,