Oversized Souvenir "Lucky Penny" Boston, MA antique sewing machine attachments box Rosenquist

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as well as on each of the leaves and circles around its perimeter

and on the lower right appears to be a signature in red--a rarity among pith paintings as I understand it

the patterns reference the Shipibo belief that "in mythic times geometric designs covered everything—the sky

Oversized Souvenir "Lucky Penny" Boston, MA antique sewing machine attachments box RosenquistI love this large, heavy (I'd guess pewter) souvenir Lucky Penny just as an object; nice in the hand, and even better on the desk as a paperweight. This specific image of profiled figure in feather headdress dates to 1919 of not earlier, but these were produced as souvenirs from then until at least through the end of the 1930s. I've found souvenir pennies matching this one from everyone from Niagara Falls to the New York World Fair; this one is from