Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn finch 12 1/4" tall x 7

12 1/4" tall x 7 3/4" wide x 1/4" thick

I’ve been kind of obsessed with antique carved wooden drapery lately

this very of-this-world-looking angel

I also really love that she looks both like a young girl and an older woman at the same time (with her pencil-drawn gray hair)

perhaps sitting in an old wooden bowl on the counter filled sea salt

Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn finch 12 1/4" tall x 7This wonderful thing. In far from perfect condition (I would never have gotten my hands on it otherwise!), but with all sorts of marvelously primitive incised scrimshawed drawings unfolding across its surface, including figures, crosses, snake, lizard, tree and who knows what all. Though it is possible it functioned as a powder horn, I have found some examples with the same sort of carved wooden base that were drinking cups, and there is evidence it