Pair of Antique Super Minimal Noisemakers plaited cedar bark basket including Horatio (October 26

including Horatio (October 26

Plenty of foxing/staining to the backing paper to which the embroidery is mounted but the embroidery is in fairly good shape and I would hang it just as it is

from every brick of the chimney to every leaf on the bushes and trees to every stripe on the awning and every cross of the lattice

and his hair

which I believe was made to hold a pie plate

Pair of Antique Super Minimal Noisemakers plaited cedar bark basket including Horatio (October 26It doesn't get much more elemental than these when it comes to producing a clack or clap, which is what I love about them the most pared down (and I think very elegant) solutions to the task. The one at right shows a patent date of 1890, and is nothing more than a round glob of lead at the end of a tin strip, tethered by another tin strip to a piece of wood. (Happily, one can move the strip up and down, varying a bit the tone produced.) The other is