Beautiful Old Wood and Wire Rack, Presumed Extra Large Farmhouse Egg Carrier antique Native American drawing what a lot of lovely

what a lot of lovely details

Things like this just make me happy

but it is double layered on the top so it does not show there

Based on the names of streets and their configuration here

Some toning to the papers as evident and perhaps a minor loss or two

Beautiful Old Wood and Wire Rack, Presumed Extra Large Farmhouse Egg Carrier antique Native American drawing what a lot of lovelyFound in Vermont the other day, this just struck me as a very beautiful thing, with a poetry to the way each arch of wire differs a bit in form from the next, together creating a delicate sort of field that feels like a 3 dimensional line drawing floating like a cloud above the wooden armature. I believe the original function was as a tray for holding and carrying eggs and a good lot of eggs it would have carried! All sorts of creative ways one might