Antique Sailor Made Hardwood Fid with Carved Fist gift for parents The figures are warmly rendered

The figures are warmly rendered in the style of beloved Swedish illustrator Aina Stenberg

Against Lewdness

while also lending the perfect final formal detail to this wonderful

At first I took this scrimshawed blade for a letter opener

with slanting lines drawn as guides

Antique Sailor Made Hardwood Fid with Carved Fist gift for parents The figures are warmly renderedThis 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