Incredibly Constructed Victorian Leather and Woven Wicker Sewing Basket with Brass Hardware wooden cat Both hand-colored

Both hand-colored

while the figure faces his fleet

with festive checkerboard patterned aisle between the pews just inside

I've shot it a few different ways--the views from an angle are more accurate

as bright and crisp and clean as if made yesterday

Incredibly Constructed Victorian Leather and Woven Wicker Sewing Basket with Brass Hardware wooden cat Both hand-coloredI think the construction on this antique sewing basket c. 1887, based on one other example I've found out there with a registration sticker still attached is just amazing, making it feel like the Gucci of baskets! With leather wrapped bentwood around the two sides where they meet the center section, brass hardware and handle for carrying, fat strips of raffia straw braided and woven through a wicker structure, and a flat wooden bottom. The overall