Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket aluminum tray Really a nice one

Really a nice one

the jar to which the lid originally belonged was broken along the way

an elementary school teacher in Ossining

The tape used to mount it on that board is slightly visible in the upper corners of the print

I loved it already

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket aluminum tray Really a nice oneThis 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