Folk Art Wooden Submarine with Metal Fins vintage Otagiri japan vase with very light scratching/denting

with very light scratching/denting

The handle alone is 4 1/2" long and 1" wide at the ferrule

I also really love the names of some of the colors: "soft Wedgwood blue"

so tears or fraying

Folk Art Wooden Submarine with Metal Fins vintage Otagiri japan vase with very light scratching/dentingBetween its form and its fabulous handcut metal fins, this old handmade wooden submarine reminds me very much of folk art ice fishing lures, but there is no iron weight on its underside, so I think maybe it's just its own funky thing? It was constructed of two pieces of wood, nailed to one another all the way around with nice fat nails, and then more nails holding on the various super folky rudders and what not. At either end is a hole, which makes