Wonderful Trench Art Iron Rest with Diving (?) Woman on the Underside scandanavian spoons the patterns reference the Shipibo

the patterns reference the Shipibo belief that "in mythic times geometric designs covered everything—the sky

I've learned it was made by Randy Strong

This may be my very favorite sort of find: a resourceful solution to a very specific problem

The person I purchased this from described him as a little lamb

Some losses as evident but wonderfully aged (later 19th c

Wonderful Trench Art Iron Rest with Diving (?) Woman on the Underside scandanavian spoons the patterns reference the ShipiboThis curious thing, one of my favorite recent finds. Clearly it's a piece of trench art, WW2 I would guess, with this fabulous engraved woman with great face and arms raised overhead, who looks to me poised to take a dive, though she does still have her shoes on, so I suppose she might just be doing her morning exercises! The steel object she is carved into, shaped like an ironing board (though also a bit like a diving board) and with heavily bolted