SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron handmade wooden cow with the little wire-legged birds

with the little wire-legged birds on either side riding along for company

Signed Richard Hubbard in numerous places in pencil on the reverse

(There is also a tear to one side of one hip patch where her stuffing is visible too

6 1/2" long and in very good antique condition

(I found it in Maine along with a donkey

SOLD Beautifully Worn, Best Orange c. 1940s Herald American Newspaper Seller's Apron handmade wooden cow with the little wire-legged birdsFound in Maine, but I believe the Herald American refers to the Chicago Herald American, published in Chicago 1939 1953. I spotted it pinned up on a white wall in an antiques shop and thought the much worn, faded and stained orange canvas extraordinary beautiful and perfectly, poignantly right for a newspaper seller's apron (from the days when the paper was the thing) bearing such an iconic feeling phrase. With the word "herald," as both noun and