Vintage "Grand Champion" Shuffleboard Salesman Sample by American letter opener this early 20th-century grinder represents

this early 20th-century grinder represents the height of American hardware craftsmanship

Such implements were essential in slaughterhouses and rural farmsteads across America

and surreal creatures coexist in vivid hand-painted form

strongly reminiscent of the Kansas City Power & Light Building and related American "cathedrals of commerce" architecture of the early 1930s

Vintage "Grand Champion" Shuffleboard Salesman Sample by American letter opener this early 20th-century grinder representsc. 1940s; American Shuffleboard Co. Union City, NJ Painted wooden salesman sample advertising model of the American Shuffleboard Co. "Grand Champion" table, mounted on a streamlined Art Deco style display plinth. The miniature table features red and cream painted rails with turquoise striping, finely turned legs with contrasting pinstriped decoration, and a scored faux wood playing surface replicating the layout of a regulation shuffleboard table. The