Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Object #1




This is a red clay McMaster Craft souvenir mug from Dundas, Ontario, produced some time in the 1950s or 60s, according to Holly Gnaedinger of Twice Found, a store specializing in midcentury modern design in Toronto. The mug has Frobisher Bay, N.W.T written on it in gold pen, as was common among McMaster souvenir objects. The remains of the company’s sticker is still visible, with the words Dundas, Canada. It is light blue with a darker blue green drip from the top.


DOUG

She’d been gone for 12 hours, 17 minutes and 43 seconds. Doug poured more beer into the pale blue mug, a gift from her parents after an ill-advised trip. It made him angry, who goes to Baffin Island for a vacation? The mug’s mate lay broken next to the half closed door. Doug finished the beer and poured another, spilling some on his stopwatch lying on the table. 12 hours, 20 minutes and 16 seconds.

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