Legend Products \'The Deckhand\' Chalkware GEM Bossons England Folk Art Signed for Sale

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Legend Products \'The Deckhand\' Chalkware GEM Bossons England Folk Art Signed For Sale

$Legend Products \'The Deckhand\' Chalkware GEM Bossons England Folk Art Signed$
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Legend Products \'The Deckhand\' Chalkware GEM Bossons England Folk Art Signed:
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Chalkware is an American term for popular figurines either made of moulded plaster of Paris (usually) or sculpted gypsum, and painted, typically with oils or watercolors.

They were primarily created during one of three periods: from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, during the Great Depression, and during the \'mid-century modern\' era as decorative lamps, figurines and wall decor from the 1940s-1960s.

Those created during the earlier period were intended as a more serious decorative art, often imitating the more expensive imported English Staffordshire potteries figurines such as Staffordshire dog figurines; those during the second period, by contrast, were more typically somewhat jocular. Early chalkware was often hollow and is difficult to find unblemished