Unusual Folk Art (Real) Star Fish Basket! plymouth england I have done a good

I have done a good bit of searching but can only find one mention of them out there: there are a few boxes of these held in the collection of the National Building Museum in Washington

and a drippy eye on one side

weighing nearly half a pound each

So many boxes out there of tintype portraits to rummage through

located at at 233 Broadway in lower Manhattan

Unusual Folk Art (Real) Star Fish Basket! plymouth england I have done a goodA curious one, which I purchased from a dealer in Nashville named Kitty Saylor, my favorite name ever and just right I think for someone offering up a starfish basket! It is a real and large starfish that forms the basket here, its underbelly (basket interior) painted a now mellow gold, and its exterior coated in a dark brown stain varnish. The handle is wood, with what appears to be a vine wrapping it tightly, all stained and varnished too, and with