Kellogg's No. 255 Whisk Broom with Wood Handle pyrography decoration A beautiful and beautifully constructed

A beautiful and beautifully constructed object

Snowstorms twice deterred me from getting to the consignment shop in Sudbury MA where I found this fabulous tramp art box

is a really striking rich orange with hand-painted giant yellow lily and graphic black leaves

its bottom side

Kellogg's No. 255 Whisk Broom with Wood Handle pyrography decoration A beautiful and beautifully constructedJohn Kellogg, the founder of Kellogg's cereal company, apparently once denounced shredded wheat as tasteless: "like eating a whisk broom." Of course once the patent for Shredded What expired in 1912, Kellogg's began producing their own version, and I like to think this whisk broom was a company give away that cleverly made reference to John Kellogg's original comment! I think it's a pretty great looking and handy little broom, which I would hang on