Ballantine Ale c. 1950 Flat Top Copper Beer Cans Swedish folk art spoons These wooden clapsticks

These wooden clapsticks

measures 4 1/2" tall x 1 7/8" in diameter

Or perhaps it was used for storing tobacco

there is a little triangular bit of wood at the center that I believe serves as a bumper to keep it from knocking against the wall

but I sure think its a beauty

Ballantine Ale c. 1950 Flat Top Copper Beer Cans Swedish folk art spoons These wooden clapsticksI 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