Iconic Old Solid Brass Hourglass Printing Block Arshille Gorky or great on the desk

or great on the desk for paperclips or whatever

graphite on wove paper with just a bit of a sheen

he  studied at Harvard

and "Abandon Evil Company" (in wonderful gothic lettering) are pages of individual letters and numbers and

who had many many fine things

Iconic Old Solid Brass Hourglass Printing Block Arshille Gorky or great on the deskMy attraction to printing blocks is not really related to their printable function; rather, I'm attracted their objecthood and specifically interested in ones bearing text or graphics that have all sorts of resonances. So this excellent old solid brass one bearing a perfectly rendered hourglass, as what is more symbolic, and iconic, than that? (I might lay it on its side in a gesture of trying to slow things down!) Just an excellent small thing, and