Antique Sailor Made Hardwood Fid with Carved Fist gift for parents while also lending the perfect

while also lending the perfect final formal detail to this wonderful

5 9/16" tall and wide and in very good condition

It is the details that really make it great

and I love how the color on this one

The rowers do still move forward and backward when pushed but might once have had a greater and more fluid range of movement than they do now

Antique Sailor Made Hardwood Fid with Carved Fist gift for parents while also lending the perfectThis is a wonderful antique folk art sailor's fid carved of hardwood. I purchased it from a dealer specializing in antique nautical items, who I believed had just brought it in, and as I carried it to the front of the (excellent) antique co op where I found it, one person after the next enthusiastically admired it. Fids, or marlinspikes, vary in size but are always conical and tapering in form; they were essential tools used by sailors for a variety