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Light Switch Covers

 

1980?  TH and GA Light Switch Covers.  Hand painted ceramic.  San Francisco and Japan: Takahashi.  5.5" x 3.5".  Unknown source.

Simple designs allow for the three holes necessary for these switch-covering plates.  The racers' path leads to the red flat at the top of the switch.  Is that colorfully clad grasshopper eating a cucumber while the black ants trudge along with their sacks?

 

 

1990?  Cover for three light switches, featuring TH.  Leviton.  Paper pasted over plastic.  Unknown source.

Might this have been a student artwork?  The paper wound onto the verso includes the mysterious phrase “Make it difficult to spot among the leaves.”  A search on the web produced nothing similar.  I believe the characters would be consistent with Disney’s presentation of the fable.