Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket ceramic bluebird This corkscrew measures 3" tall

This corkscrew measures 3" tall x 3 1/8" long x 1/2" wide (just the cat measures 1" long x 1 1/4" tall c 1/2" wide

These would be terrific framed

but with plenty more fun left in it

” edited by Lucien Vogel and published in NY

appearing more disposed to taking a swim than taking a punch

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket ceramic bluebird This corkscrew measures 3" tallThis American antique buttocks basket, woven of oak splint I believe, and dating to the late 19th century or so, has a great form and features what I believe is its original brown paint. I'd like to think this basket has had a long, productive life, used for gathering many many dozens of eggs and perhaps much else as well the result being a number of breaks in the the split wrapping the wide band of its rim, and what appears to be some burn damage to