Unusual Folk Art (Real) Star Fish Basket! plymouth england So many boxes out there

So many boxes out there of tintype portraits to rummage through

I have done a good bit of searching but can only find one mention of them out there: there are a few boxes of these held in the collection of the National Building Museum in Washington

With painted arms and legs and paper lithograph for the very colorful (one might think a bit demonic looking

located at at 233 Broadway in lower Manhattan

and super sturdy now

Unusual Folk Art (Real) Star Fish Basket! plymouth england So many boxes out thereA curious one, which I purchased from a dealer in Nashville named Kitty Saylor, my favorite name ever and just right I think for someone offering up a starfish basket! It is a real and large starfish that forms the basket here, its underbelly (basket interior) painted a now mellow gold, and its exterior coated in a dark brown stain varnish. The handle is wood, with what appears to be a vine wrapping it tightly, all stained and varnished too, and with