Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket cut paper animals and with a tiny hole

and with a tiny hole in the handle for threading to hang

including just a small fragment of a mirror

but to my sensibilities this one is much lovelier for its lack of color and the wonderful schoolgirl-ish manner of the decoration

perfect scale and very sturdy one in great shape

Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket cut paper animals and with a tiny holeA sailor made macrame basket, late 19th century or so, as large as I've see and rather amazingly still with its lid (with very sweet scalloped edge) and with this unusually wide, open weave on the sides, pushing the limits of the basket form and making it feel equally like a cage in which one might carry home a canary or a live fish! (Found in Maine, I might think it was a lobster trap that inspired it!) As Ive said before, antique sailor made baskets