Vintage Saturday Evening Post Tin – Bus Stop Christmas Cover, Curtis Publishing

The illustration is Stevan Dohanos, from the Saturday Evening Post cover of December 13th, 1952. It's known as Bus Stop at Christmas. A crowd of ordinary people, children, working men, a couple of older folks, all standing with their parcels waiting for a bus that hasn't come.

People attribute it to Norman Rockwell constantly. It isn't his. Dohanos painted 123 Post covers of his own and lived and worked in the Westport artist colony, about ten minutes up the road from the shop. He and Rockwell were friends, but Dohanos deliberately went the other way, less idealized and closer to Hopper.

A promotional tin from Curtis Publishing, rectangular with handles, which is the harder format to find this image on. The old Caldor price sticker is still on the bottom.