VTG D\'Art Craftsman Corp. Dutch Milkmaid Dinner Bell Salt & Pepper Shaker Set For Sale

This is a charming mid-century novelty table service set featuring a functional brass-toned metal dinner bell topped with a creamy white hard plastic (often celluloid or early styrene plastic) cutout handle silhouette. The handle is sculpted into the shape of a traditional Dutch milkmaid wearing a winged lace bonnet. Her outstretched arms function as a yoke, carrying two hanging clear glass salt and pepper shakers shaped like milk buckets with cross-hatched or diamond-cut textures and silvertone screw-on metal lids. Produced mid-century by manufacturers like the D\'Art Craftsman Corporation of New York, these interactive \"Ringing Banquet Bells\" were highly popular kitchen counter accents and regional travel souvenirs during the 1940s and 1950s.See photos for accurate depiction of condition.