Ballantine Ale c. 1950 Flat Top Copper Beer Cans rainbow colored blocks and handy for holding pins

and handy for holding pins and needles

This particular box features the original oak stain and mark on the front reading  "Patented 1889

which were likely once feet on a piece of furniture

to mark passage from exterior to interior

Ballantine Ale c. 1950 Flat Top Copper Beer Cans rainbow colored blocks and handy for holding pinsI bought these cans in homage to Jasper Johns, who made them icons of art history through his Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), 1960, and a series of works on paper based on them. As the story goes, Bill de Kooning told Johns "you could give that son of a bitch two beer cans and he could sell them," referring to Leo Castelli, to which Johns responded, "what a wonderful idea for a sculpture. And while of course there is much more to the story than this, with