1930s Art Deco Style Bellhop antique hand-painted tin Complete set of nine pins

Complete set of nine pins and two balls on smoothly rolling cart

one can just feel these things

it's hollow on the interior so that the ends of whatever it's holding can slip down inside

15 5/8" w x 9 5/8" d x 5 3/4" t and in very good

with the earlier baccalarius altered by wordplay to baccalaureate in order to conform with bacca lauri--laurel berry--because of the laurels awarded to scholars

1930s Art Deco Style Bellhop antique hand-painted tin Complete set of nine pinsThough I didn't know it when I found him, I've since learned that this bellhop was produced in conjunction with a Philip Morris cigarette advertising campaign launched in 1933, and would once have carried either a bundle of cigarettes in one hand and a book of matches in the other (or else a cruet set; there were a couple of different versions produced, and I believe they were often displayed on hotel bars.) His baggage is long since gone, leaving his