Bundled Up Two Year Old with Santa! Old Real Photo Postcard tabletop watertower antique sailor-made macrame baskets feel

antique sailor-made macrame baskets feel like such special things to me—in some part at least because I really like the image of sailors finely knotting these baskets to kill time

The shape of the dark green painted head on this one

who had quite a collection of small folk art cathedrals

I'm completely charmed by this little creamer

Very good condition with a great presence

Bundled Up Two Year Old with Santa! Old Real Photo Postcard tabletop watertower antique sailor-made macrame baskets feelSuch a delight to find this one in New Hampshire the other day, reminding one of the enduring and I think enduringly strange tradition of having children photographed with "Santa Claus." This Santa looks perhaps Inuit or Native American to me, and the set up, with painted backdrop and what appears like gravel underfoot, with some fabric bunched up in it too, looks as if having seen better days. Then this bundled up child, two years and four months