Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket eyes There are two blocks with

There are two blocks with partial doors in green and orange

facing toward the camera

and am pretty confident thinking this dates to earlier than the 19th century

product of a singular artistic vision

I love how positively gentle this pair look even as they fire their guns and hold their knives at the ready

Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket eyes There are two blocks withA 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