Beautiful Antique Sailor Made Varnished Knotwork Basket hits an a few other more

an a few other more ambiguous carved marks

Total weight of the pair is about 10 pounds

Pretty cool too

but I think this lustre-glazed Oxford (larger than most) rather transcends the genre

what really sold me on this sign is the red lettering against weathered gray on the beans side

Beautiful Antique Sailor Made Varnished Knotwork Basket hits an a few other moreAs Ive said before, antique sailor made macrame baskets feel like such special things to mein some part at least because I really like the image of sailors finely knotting these baskets to kill time, and also the idea that they, like sailors valentines, were often made as love tokens to be gifted upon return. And it does feel like there was a whole lot of love as well as considerable skill invested in this one, with spiral design (looking a bit like a