Vintage "Grand Champion" Shuffleboard Salesman Sample by American letter opener Such implements were essential in

Such implements were essential in slaughterhouses and rural farmsteads across America

strongly reminiscent of the Kansas City Power & Light Building and related American "cathedrals of commerce" architecture of the early 1930s

The restrained ornament and solid construction place it within the transitional period between late Victorian embellishment and early 20th-century refinement

Porcelain enamel shows edge chipping and scattered surface wear consistent with professional use

Vintage "Grand Champion" Shuffleboard Salesman Sample by American letter opener Such implements were essential inc. 1940s; American Shuffleboard Co. Union City, NJ Painted wooden salesman sample advertising model of the American Shuffleboard Co. "Grand Champion" table, mounted on a streamlined Art Deco style display plinth. The miniature table features red and cream painted rails with turquoise striping, finely turned legs with contrasting pinstriped decoration, and a scored faux wood playing surface replicating the layout of a regulation shuffleboard table. The