Beautiful Old Blue Oil Can vintage glove stretchers ” or the cocktail king

” or the cocktail king of Cuba) and for its expat clientele including very frequent visitor Ernest Hemingway

a mound of flowers at her feet

The second to last photograph of a pile of blocks shows some more of the other plain ones--again

I assume doing some commercial work on the side to make some money

spiral-carved narwhal tusk will also fit into the front hole of either creature

Beautiful Old Blue Oil Can vintage glove stretchers ” or the cocktail kingI've never paid much attention to oil cans, but I have of late been paying a lot of attention to found color, especially on old metal things (I've included a photo of an arrangement of this and a couple of other recent finds that I just love together), and the blue on this just struck me as super beautiful, and it as really quite a lovely sculptural object altogether. 7 1 2" x 3 7 8" x 3" in diameter. Very good condition, lid screws off easily,