Antique Sailor Made Hardwood Fid with Carved Fist gift for parents It is the details that

It is the details that really make it great

and I love how the color on this one

just like the Dutch countryside

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

Antique Sailor Made Hardwood Fid with Carved Fist gift for parents It is the details thatThis 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