Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket serving pot and also it seems in

and also it seems in the U

and I think was used by him or her quite a bit

I know this was made by the Weston Toy Company in Weston

7 7/8" widest diameter

Plus an introduction that tells the history of La Florida—located on a “glorious corner of Havana” previously occupied by “The Silver Pine” and now transformed into “a refuge of Art and Poetry”

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket serving pot and also it seems inThis American antique buttocks basket, woven of oak splint I believe, and dating to the late 19th century or so, has a great form and features what I believe is its original brown paint. I'd like to think this basket has had a long, productive life, used for gathering many many dozens of eggs and perhaps much else as well the result being a number of breaks in the the split wrapping the wide band of its rim, and what appears to be some burn damage to