Gorgeous Rusty Woven Iron Antique Trivet toy skeleton and used to survey Canada's

and used to survey Canada's northern waters

I think the pointy yellow shards emerging from the mouth of this strange creature do a pretty great job of giving form to a shrill cry

truly one of a kind old handmade signs in all their brilliant variety

No postmark--which I hope means he delivered it in person rather than never sending it

I believe the figures are carved of wood and glued inside

Gorgeous Rusty Woven Iron Antique Trivet toy skeleton and used to survey Canada'sI am completely obsessed with this thing, which I believe is a trivet, woven I'd guess 150 years ago or so of iron strips of varying lengths and widths, folded over at the ends to hold it together. Between the overall form, the pattern and texture of the woven strips, and the variegated color of the now well rusted iron, I find it just an exquisitely beautiful thing that I would hang on the wall straight away, and consider as a sculpture and painting