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Casting looks sharp and well-defined Bosko. Great find!
This site only lists it as being by "American Photographer." [ATTACH]
Me too.
Great designs and color on those @all_fakes
There's a lot going on in that image!
Nice piece Bosko! Can't say I can help you, except to say that the marks on the bottom rim look like the honest wear of decades---so not new!
I'm going with this, for now. [ATTACH]
Yeah that's a beauty! It's in first-rate condition, which is huge!
I agree! I like it better that way. But of course it would just depend on the space. Yeah, I got the same result. A wood bath rack.... Maybe in...
Pretty color and a nice shape!
Hi again. I haven't been able to find anything else online that looks exactly like this 36" / 0.9m long shelf. I liked its proportions. Is it...
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And the boy whistling--- fun! I love to whistle.
Looks like it might be raffia / palm fiber. Those colors on the bottom are not part of any NA tradition that I know of.
If you turn the carving over and then take some flour, or baby powder, and lightly spread a bit on the bottom, then rub your finger back and forth...
Agree that the material looks like palm, so not North American Indigenous.
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American, an enigmatic genius [ATTACH]
Well, if there isn't a full-on poetry thread yet, count me in! Poetry is "the best words, in the best order." ---S.T. Coleridge
Oooh---- very nice! Love the oars. Not so sure about the passenger.... Thanks for sharing!
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