USA, Wonderfully Crude Red White and Blue Painted Cutout with Nails for Keys antique white chalk I've got a soft spot

I've got a soft spot for old locks

Their bodies were cut from tan colored card

The tile itself I believe is transfer decorated

or at least nearby

and as though it saw plenty of use receiving and dolling out change

USA, Wonderfully Crude Red White and Blue Painted Cutout with Nails for Keys antique white chalk I've got a soft spotTotal love for this one, wonderfully humble but also very proud! Seems it was made to serve as a key holder, with five nails lined up in a not very straight line across it. With USA carved into the surface, and an all over pattern of impressed marks lending texture to the fields of red white and blue. Perhaps a shop class or summer camp project; rather poignant. 11" x 6 3 4" x 3 4", perfectly aged, no losses and with two eye hooks plus and extra on