Especially Lovely Antique Diamond Shaped Twig Basket with Old String Mend narrative as well as for teaching

as well as for teaching matching and sequence

and modifying tiny watch components

and because I have a penchant for all things relating to homing pigeons

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Especially Lovely Antique Diamond Shaped Twig Basket with Old String Mend narrative as well as for teachingI don't always jump on an old folk art twig baskets they can be a bit unwieldy, and often a bit worse for the wear but I fell in love this one: just the right scale, and with the handle arching across the diamond shaped basket from corner to corner, lending a dynamism and lyricism to the whole thing. Perhaps best of all, a very old tightly wrapped string twine mend reinforcement to the center of the handle, lending extra tenderness and reading as dark