1940's Alfred Meakin Audubon Bird Plates - Set of Two - John James Audubon Birds of America Luncheon Plates craftone Ball made their Ideal line

Ball made their Ideal line of jars which featured a bail wire hinge closure with a star shaped glass lightening style lid

very light salmon hue to them

- Mexican themed pockets

the collection contained at least a dozen different bird images all set against a swirl of embossed leaves

- Bright colors and clear typography

1940's Alfred Meakin Audubon Bird Plates - Set of Two - John James Audubon Birds of America Luncheon Plates craftone Ball made their Ideal line"A magic power transported us into the forests which for so many years this man of genius has trod. Learned and ignorant alike we are astonished at the spectacle. Imagine a landscape wholly American, trees, flowers, grass, even the colors of the sky and the waters, quickened with a life that is real, peculiar, trans Atlantic. On twigs, branches, bits of shore, copied by the brush with the strictest fidelity, sport the feathered races of the New World,