Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket cut paper animals just one bag missing a

just one bag missing a label

embroidered pen in one resting on a large page

I would just hang it on the wall and appreciate its beauty

including just a small fragment of a mirror

Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket cut paper animals just one bag missing aA sailor made macrame basket, late 19th century or so, as large as I've see and rather amazingly still with its lid (with very sweet scalloped edge) and with this unusually wide, open weave on the sides, pushing the limits of the basket form and making it feel equally like a cage in which one might carry home a canary or a live fish! (Found in Maine, I might think it was a lobster trap that inspired it!) As Ive said before, antique sailor made baskets