From Milan, Italy:
A chair that I saw in Milan in 2013.
Marble patterned.
Upholstery: Printed silk and viscose fabric.
Designers: Marizio Galante and Tal Lancman
From Richmond, Virgina
Fabric covered cement weights.
Marble patterned.
Upholstery : Material unknown.
Designers: unknown
Covid -19 Testing Facilty where I just got tested.
With a dash.
From New York City:
Let’s not forget why we’re here…..
From Polson, Montana:
The Miracle of Montana Museum.
The real miracle is seeing so many objects with great faces. All unique – all with personality. We will miss them.
From Butte, Montana:
From New York City:
From Driggs, Idaho:
From Merida, Mexico:
From New York City:
Where’s the light switch?
The bathroom?
Oh.
From New York City:
Film noir.
From New York City:
Intensity.
From New York City:
The Unexpected.
From New York City:
Patriotism.
From New York City:
Divine Decay.
From New York City:
Elegance.
From New York City:
Beauty.
From New York City:
Worlds Collide.
From Harlem:
A mural outside of a religious organization.
From Chelsea:
On the sidewalk. A most urbane man.
From Butte, Montana:
I really have no idea.
From Miami, Florida:
Jeff’s surprised sink. Just for fun.
Making your ride Endurable.
Look Up!
Look Down!
Look Around!
From New York City:
Perfect Styling.
From New York City:
Too wonderful for words.
From New York City:
?
From New York City:
Serious clean up time.
From New York City:
Please follow interestingfoundobjects on Instagram.
All your favorites – and new discoveries – coming.
Thanks,
Laura
From Rome, Italy:
An abrupt ending.
From Belfry, Montana:
Free materials.
From New York City:
What shed?
From Merida, Mexico:
A logical approach.
From Taos, New Mexico:
Balance.
From Kalispell, Montana:
Buffalo in a Box.
We mistakenly booked a room in a trailer park.
It was well worth it for this guy.
From Catskill, New York:
The Catamount Peoples Museum.
Loving hands at home.
From Malta, Montana:
Dinosaur Park.
Some confusion with the timing of the species, but has it’s charm.
Intentional or not, who cares?
From Marathon, Texas:
From Pray, Montana:
From New York City:
From Mystic, Connecticut:
From New York City:
From New York City:
From New York City:
From New York City:
From the Bering Sea, Alaska:
My personal favorite…
From Washington DC:
They say it all.
Passion, commitment, wit, a sense of community.
And they won’t back down.
Enjoy.
From Montana:
Or try to.
From New York City:
A hand decorated Mercedes.
From Wyoming:
Mini-mirrored steer horns on a pick-up truck.
From Texas:
A three and a half foot long crocheted hippopotamus.
I actually considered buying this.
From Montana:
An eight foot high cross made of welded lawnmower covers.
I did not consider buying this.
Merry Grassmas.
From Montana:
I took some pictures in Montana during August 2011, and posted them here.
I figured they were the work of a random freak.
An isolated incident.
From Marfa, Texas
Dixie cups.
From Catania, Sicily
Handmade church candles.
From Polson, Montana
Mail bag.
From New York City
Protective netting.
From Montana:
We just need to reinvent ourselves.
From New York City:
I used to know everyone.
From New Jersey:
I’ve got to get out of here.
From Catagna, Sicily
Strange little chairs…
In a cult.
From Padua, Italy
Pulling back from the table full.
From Palermo, Sicily
I’m fine.
Really.
From Milan, Italy
Those witty Italians…
From New York City
Those witty Americans…
From New York City
Across from my apartment building.
I never appreciated it.
Until now.
From New York City
Heaven
The driver saw me taking a picture, and gave me an ice cream sandwich.
From Hudson, New York
Keeping cool.
Cool shoes.
From Montana
And they don’t even have to do anything…
1.
2.
3.
From New York City
The subway
From New York City
Uber
From New York City
No
fun.
From New York City
Bounced check.
From New York City
Yum.
From Milan, Italy
A stool.
From Mexico City, Mexico
A grill.
From Palermo, Sicily
A screen.
From New York City
In the subway.
I don’t want to know.
From New York City
Flood in my storage space.
Bellini coffee table.
What’s left of its wrapping.
From New York City
Looks like a preserved organ.
Pretty though…
From Venice, Italy
Ok. Perhaps not…
From New York City
Somehow, so right together.
A cup/box and my painter grandfather’s turpentine tin.
From Pray, Montana
Awwwww
From Hamilton Heights, New York City
Just taking an evening stroll down a random street and I see…this.
And then…this.
That should pretty much do it.
From Milan
Ashtray prototype found in the studio of the late, great Achille Castiglioni.
Complete with his cigarette butts.
From Montana
A random noodle?
From New York City
Just an hors d’oeuvre.
From New York City
Ok, so I’m cheating. I didn’t find them. I made them.
I had some un-lovely things in my apartment so…
Surviving air gaps and building re-pointing dust.
First seen on the great blog http://www.improvisedlife.com
Livingroom
Bedroom
The Ubiquitous Apartment Doorbell
Transformed
My Burlap TV
They make phone covers don’t they?
From New York City
West 4th. Street subway stop.
Upon closer inspection…
1.
2.
3.
From Harlem,New York City
From Belfry,Montana
From Montana
I loved it for years on the Bozeman Pass.
It’s cold up there…..
From Mexico City, Mexico
In a swanky downtown office building.
Professionally etched on the stainless steel elevator wall.
A lyrical riff on Coca-Cola.
From New York City
I had just moved back from Montana to Manhattan, and was sorting through the mountains of boxes when I found this correspondence from my mother’s archives.
Born in New York City in 1912, she had been a stenographer – which she loathed – but said that she always made sure that she at least worked in interesting places and for interesting people.
During the depression she was secretary to Ben Hecht – the legendary newspaperman, playwright and Hollywood screenwriter who’s work included : Scarface, The Front Page, Nothing Sacred, His Girl Friday, Notorious, and Wuthering Heights – but I never knew how she got the job.
Here’s how.
In 1937 Hecht was quoted in an interview stating that when poor people get money they no longer value it, so she wrote him a letter.
She got the job.
New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons commented in his column The Lyons Den that a lady had written a letter to Hecht denouncing him, and he promptly hired her as his secretary.
My mother sent Lyons a letter too.
Which sadly, I did not find.
But I did find this:
And this.
Way to go Mom.
From New York City
Subway Bench.
14th. St. and 8th. Ave. stop.
“What’s a nice marshmallow like you doing in a place like this?”
From Washington D.C.
Union Station.
Ladies Room still life.
From Union Square, NYC
Right in front of the subway entrance and to the left of the chanting Hari Krishnas, there was this spot.
As usual, the New Yorkers just kept on walking.
Right through it.
But not me.
No Thank You.
No Sir.
From New York City
In the window of a dry cleaner on 72nd. near York.
From Pray, Montana
Good.
Found at an old homestead site.
Rusted tin.
3 inches in diameter by 4 1/2 inches high.
Free.
From Billings, Montana
Not so good.
Found in a second hand store.
A saucer with a teacup handle attached to it.
They didn’t know what it was either.
Is it…..
a. As my friend Glenn – who knows about everything – said,
“Something they used to poar hot tea or coffee into, blow on to cool and then drink.”
From “The Phrase Finder” –
“It’s been ‘saucered and blowed.’ A project has been completed – everything has been taken care of.”
and…
“Amongst the working class people in the North of England, in the late 19th and early 20th century, the accepted way to drink tea was to pour a little into the saucer, blow on it to cool it, and then consume with a noisy slurp before repeating the procedure. This custom has long since died out.”
b. My idea,
A factory worker was fed up at the end of the day, and instead of sticking the handle on a tea cup, he made a surrealist gesture of contempt and stuck it on a saucer.
c. A lemon plate.
Answer c.
Life is often not as interesting as it should be.
Porcelain
Noritaki
Hand painted Made in Japan
U.S. Design Pat. applied for circa 1919
5 1/2 inches in diameter
Two dollars
From Montana
A bracelet found in a Billings second hand store.
Pricey for costume jewelry.
Sixty dollars.
But the adjustable mechanism was very cool, and it closed with two satisfying clicks.
I wanted it and I bought it.
The more I looked at it, the more I wondered…
I took it to a New York jeweler.
“Can you tell me if this is gold?”
First he checked the stones.
Diamonds and sapphires.
Then the metal.
14 karat gold.
Then, he weighed it.
Seven thousand dollars.
Just for the gold.
He estimated “Vintage, diamonds and sapphires. Approximately fifteen thousand dollars.”
I looked it up.
It is made of something called “Tubogas”.
Invented by Italians, Tubogas is a thick ovoid flexible linkage which resembles… gas tubes.
I found a matching single strand necklace on 1st. dibs.
Van Cleef & Arpels. France. 1940’s.
Eleven thousand dollars.
2 1/2 inches in diameter by 15/16 thick
Sixty dollars
From New York City
Not.
Westside highway at 16th. St. looking at the Hudson.
Old rotted pilings in the frozen river.
I sent this as a holiday greeting card a while back.
Not so sure that anyone got it…
From Webster, South Dakota
On a cross country drive I went 500 miles out of my way to see “The World’s Largest Hairball”.
Found in a cow’s stomach, it is 37 inches around.
Upon closer inspection it seems to be from Kansas, but no note as to why it now resides in South Dakota.
From Pray, Montana
A double rainbow over my front yard.
The second of two that I saw that summer.
From Ketchum, Idaho
The sheep and the sage looked like they were made from each other.
As I took the picture, he noticed.
From Palermo, Italy
On the barricade of an abandoned building.
In Italian, pieno means full and vuoto means empty.
From New York City
Found on my way to the studio one morning.
From Bozeman, Montana
But what?
From Amenia, New York
Found at the top of the closet in a run down McMansion.
A ladies’ beaverskin riding hat.
Circa 1920
Such beautiful curves that I wanted to steal it.
From Saugatuck, Michigan
On a cross country drive I stopped to visit my cool friend Ken Krayer.
He lent me this.
Here it is closed.
You turn the end, and it opens like this.
“What is it?” I asked
“I don’t know.” he said, “But objects find you, you don’t find them”.
It looks vaguely sinister.
11 inches long.
For all of you smartypantses who informed me that you could read the answers by running your mouse over the images I say “HA”.
It didn’t do you much good, because in at least one case I was … wrong.
As for the rest, fine work.
If a bit strange …
A smattering.
From Montana
The fabulous Glenn Godward of Park Place Tavern in Livingston, Montana gave me this.
“Here’s an Interesting Found Object for you.” he said.
4 1/8 inches long.
Passive.
Guesses:
1. Sausage grip. Not THAT sausage … for slicing salamis.
2. Making little vent holes in your cigar similar to the ones on Parliament filters. For a smooth light pull.
3. A cigar trimmer.
4. A lemon rind grater for martinis.
5. A male chastity devise ? An early S&M experiment ?
6. A circumciser. Got a lot of those type answers …
7. Cuts off the heads of mice.
Anyone would know that who’s seen the movie Masters of the Flying Guillotine.
In copy-of-a-copy (of a copy-of-a-copy) style, Kung Fu turns a passive hat (connected to a long string) into a skillful weapon for carrying out assassinations.
Fling the hat onto a man’s head (no problem for Kung Fu), pull the string and shark-teeth blades whip out from somewhere in the headband.
Voila, the head rolls.
The Scissor Mouse-Head Decapitator is the smaller version.
Don’t know how you’d actually get a mouse to stick it’s head in that thing.
Ah, maybe in conjunction with those feet-stuck-to-the-floor traps.
Anyway, am I close?
Sort of.
My guess – of which I was terribly certain – was that it was a device to cut the foil off of wine bottles.
Which is does.
But it’s not.
Answer:
Four smart people with high cholesterol got it.
A device for cutting off the tops of soft boiled eggs.
Active.
From Montana
Cellulose plastic and metal
5 7/8 inches long.
Passive.
Guesses:
Pretty much everybody who guessed got it.
Answer:
My favorite was from a friend who’s grandmother had a beauty salon in a little town in Texas in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
She used them for making finger waves in ladies hair.
Active.
From Maryland
A dear friend gave this to me years ago.
I loved it and asked “What is it?”
“Yes!” she replied.
Many thanks to another great friend, Fritz Karch – World Class Collecter – for solving the mystery.
4 3/8 inches long.
Passive.
Guesses:
1. Condiment or sugar tongs?
Not too appetizing with the hairy knuckle close up, but I’ll get my appetite back eventually.
2. For removing an egg from boiling water.
3. Ice tongs for cocktails. I have a similar one in silver.
4. A gynecological device. Not particularly (gyneco) logical.
Answer:
A device for getting olives out of a jar.
Which is odd because it is made of brass and painted red like its a tool.
And it makes a very weird sound.
Not very foodish.
Active.
From Montana
The fabulous Glenn Godward of Park Place Tavern in Livingston, Montana gave me this.
“Here’s an Interesting Found Object for you.” he said.
4 1/8 inches long.
Passive.
Active.
What is it?
From Montana
Cellulose plastic and metal
5 7/8 inches long.
Passive.
Active.
What is it?
From Maryland
A dear friend gave this to me years ago.
I loved it and asked “What is it?”
“Yes!” she replied.
Many thanks to another great friend, Fritz Karch – World Class Collector – for solving the mystery.
4 3/8 inches long.
Passive.
Active.
What is it?
And thank you Mr. Smith for a fine hand modeling job.
I look forward to your responses…..
From Italy
In Milan, looking for a gift for a friend who has a small apartment, I find a store on an appropriately tiny street.
It sells doll house accessories.
There are minute bowls of eggs, plates of pasta, and an a selection of meats and cheeses.
I ask the woman if I can see the provolone, and she says “Smoked or regular?”.
Smoked provolone 5/8 inch tall.
Salami 11/16 inch long plus the separate slices.
From Montana
A porcelain pretzel flask.
Germany circa 1900.
For sneaky drinkers.
The second of two that I found in Montana.
The first one was in a junk store in Butte, but the store was closed.
This one a year later in a similar store in Bozeman, which was open.
5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 3/4 inches thick.
From Palermo, Sicily
Found in a museum in Palermo.
I took a picture – although it was not allowed.
From the late 1600’s, a wax diorama of a plague victim being lowered into a mass grave.
After some research, I believe that it is by Gaetano Zumbo.
From the blog Morbid Anatomy:
Although his artistic career was extremely short lived, Gaetano Zumbo was arguably one of the finest wax modellers active in the second half of the 17th century.
He died in Paris in 1701.
Zumbo’s work demonstrates a rigorous and scientific observation of the various stages of decomposition of the human body, and essentially, the inevitable decay of human beauty and power.
The Marquis de Sade’s first impressions upon seeing Zumbo’s work are as follows:
‘So powerful is the impression produced by this masterpiece that even as you gaze at it your other senses are played upon, moans audible, you wrinkle your nose as if you could detect the evil odors of mortality…
These scenes of the plague appealed to my cruel imagination: and I mused, how many persons had undergone these awful metamorphoses thanks to my wickedness?’
Nice.
From Ortigia, Sicily
Pistachio marzipan.
One Euro.
Live it up, before it’s too late…
From Osaka, Japan
Come Good Wrinkle Chapeau Fit
Come Good Come Good Come Good
Smart Sex Come Good Smart Sex Come Good
Be sure and note the drawings.
Found in Osaka……..fifteen years ago.
Designed by an American.
Bob Zoell – who got a credit on the front of the box.
Fat chance that an American manufacturer would produce a design like this, even today.
From Albuquerque, New Mexico
Before it was mandatory to have little flowers on the box.
Big improvement on the contents though…….
www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/kotex-classic
From Milan, Italy
Ergonomics is not everything.
From Catania, Sicily
Religion is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx
Television is the opiate of the people. Edward R. Murrow
Together at last.
From Palermo, Sicily
There must have been a special…
From New York
Vintage Monkey Doll.
Five Dollars.
Nine inches long.
I can relate…
From Montana
Finger Hat.
Two inches high.
I leave in two days!
Stay tuned for Oggetti Trovati Interessanti.
You people are a riot.
And very smart. And mean.
I like that in a reader.
So, along with the actual answers are your twisted and imaginative ones – for want of space – just the highlights…
And, thanks a million.
From Montana
I was at the local church rummage sale, and there was nothing good at all.
Until Robert came up to me and said “Guess what this is.”
I couldn’t.
Can you?
Carved wood. 31 inches long, approximately 1 inch thick at the end.
One Dollar.
Guesses:
1. A pointing and beating tool for the poor kids that attended the local church school.
2. An animal prod of some sort?
3. A tooth pick for Paul Bunyon.
4. Disposable poker? Cat herding stick?
5. Used when the person next you has fallen asleep with the remote and you don’t want to get up.
6. A switch used for disciplining children and wives!
7. Stick is used by Republicans to beat on the poor and women.
8. Would this be part of a fishing rod?
9. I think the wooden stick is a ‘rain stick’ It moves when rain is likely and then straightens out when the weather is going to be good. (?)
10. Well it looks so like something that thread would travel through.
Perhaps from a Stone Age Sewing Machine. Yes. That must be it.
11. I could use that first one on my kids.
Answer:
A hand carved blackboard pointer (I like to think from a one room school house, but who knows?)
From Montana
A bunch of these squiggles were leaning up against the outside wall of a second hand store.
I had no idea what they were, but I had to have one.
Do you know?
Wrought iron.
58 inches long, approximately 3/4 inch thick.
8 Dollars.
Guesses:
1. As for the giant cork screw, maybe for lifting bales of hay?
2. Is it to screw into the ice for some use in ice fishing?
Or is it for some kind of fencing?
Or is it the device that the Republicans are planning to use to screw us all?
3. The second one, though I’m guessing, is almost certainly a fencepost for cattle.
The tight sequence of curves drilled into the ground and the others held lateral runs of barbed wire.
Not sure it’s local, or even of Montana, because you’d need fairly rock-free soil for that to work on a worthy scale.
With the pointy top, it’d be tough to pound in.
4. A curling iron for pioneer women. First, heat it in the fire; then, careful, careful not to singe the hair….
5. Corkscrew for tall people? Or really tall bottles?
6. Pat thought the wrought iron thing was something they used in putting in fence posts. I thought it had to do with barbed wire.
7. Metal squiggle is a steel fencepost for stringing barbed wire.
8. This one looks as if it threads something that moves (the thread has something on the end of it that moves?)
Goodness knows what, but I want it.
9. Prices include delivery?
Answer:
From Collector’s Weekly – WW I Battlefield “pigtail” Barbed Wire Anchor Post.
“Besides their rifles, packs, picks, shovels, coils of wire, etc. the soldiers are carrying an invention that saved many lives. Most activity – particularly placing barbed wire in No Man’s Land – was done at night to avoid becoming a target. However, noise could invite enemy parachute flares which would turn night into day for those found in No Man’s Land. The curly-bottomed fenceposts could be silently turned into the ground by inserting a bar through the ‘eye’ on top – thus avoiding the noise of trying to drive them in with mallets … and a sniper’s bullet.”
Wow.
From Montana
I was at the local church rummage sale, and there was nothing good at all.
Until Robert came up to me and said “Guess what this is.”
I couldn’t.
Can you?
Carved wood. 31 inches long, approximately 1 inch thick at the end.
One Dollar.
From Montana
A bunch of these squiggles were leaning up against the outside wall of a second hand store.
I had no idea what they were, but I had to have one.
Do you know?
Wrought iron. 58 inches long, approximately 3/4 inch thick.
8 Dollars
Write in your guesses. Double dog dare you. Answers tomorrow……
From Montana – but could be from anywhere.
Wow. Interesting typeface. Let’s call it…Nutball.
Oh. I get it. It’s a Conspiracy.
Wait. I’m confused. Wolves are Aliens? But, they were here first…
God says tyrants – bad.
I’m confused again.
Wait. What?
It’s a snowman. A snowmouse. Not Mickey.
Is that a yarmulke?
My head is starting to hurt…
Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow
From New York
This was from the second one.
Or was it the third?
From New York
Paintings for sale on a stoop in Harlem.
The artist’s representative told us that the paintings with more than one person in them cost twenty dollars – per person.
Most of them have very irritable New York faces.
The artist’s name is Patrick-Earl Barnes.
From New York
No Name packaging, early 1990’s.
a.k.a. Deadpan Design
I ate them, and kept the box.
From Yellowstone National Park
In a latrine.
Simple, yet elegant.
It reminds me. I once had a toilet paper holder from a prison catalogue installed in my bathroom.
A stainless steel cylinder the depth of the roll, it was recessed flush into the wall.
When the toilet paper roll was in it, the only thing that showed was the end.
It looked like a big dot.
From New York
Green Shoes Eau De Parfum.
The back label reads: Compliments of Jolay Bootery.
What a concept. A perfume that smells like a shoe!
Four Dollars.
From New York
Store mannequin. A beautiful, albeit unlikely, body image.
From New York
Well laminated, elegantly printed. This card of nice heft came attached to my health insurance card.
Just in case someone I don’t like asks for my phone number……
From France
A refillable metal powder compact marked “Ultima II”.
Enameled to look like a magnification of aging skin……..
I’m so proud!
I love their blog.
From New York
Found in my storage space.
A clip on ash tray in Sterling Silver.
A gift from years ago – when I smoked.
Designed for lefties as well as righties.
To take this picture, I lit a cigarette for the first time in eleven years.
From Montana
Elegant in it’s simplicity.
Direct as New York.
From New Mexico
The Light Bulb Lady.
Found in Albuquerque. Isn’t she beautiful?
Love the stand too.
They said that she was from the 1920’s.
You can’t do this with one of those new light bulbs…….
From Washington state
Down to my last few gallons of gas in Roosevelt, Washington.
Not a gas station in sight.
In fact, nothing in sight.
Except this.
From New Mexico
A souvenir diorama. Bought new, twelve years ago.
Light shines through the yellow cellophane slits on top. Gives it that “realistic” glow.
2 1/4 inches high x 3 inches wide x 2 inches deep.
Three Dollars.
From Montana
Photograph found in a second hand store in Billings.
One Dollar.
Charlie Chaplin?
From California
Found in a Dollar Store in Davis, California.
One Dollar – natch.
Happy Holidays.
From Montana
Beaver sticks
Mysteriously carved, and found in a friend’s studio.
The repetitive patterns are created by a beaver gnawing off the stick’s bark.
The patterns change depending on the age of the beaver, the type of wood, and extenuating circumstances.
From New York
I was walking down University Place towards ninth street, when I saw some paintings displayed on a metal security gate.
I never look – because those tourist things are always awful – but something about these paintings caught my eye.
The man who painted them introduced himself. His name is Teofilo Olivieri.
I asked him why he painted on book covers.
“I was in rehab and really needed to paint,” he said. “I saw some books and realized that they were just made of canvas, so I painted on them. Then they threw me out of rehab.”
“Why?” I asked.
“For defacing government property.” he said. “But I’m still clean.”
He does not draw the animal in any way. He just paints the negative space. You can see more of his work online.
Three paintings for Eighty Dollars
From New York
WINNER
Handler’s Eau De Toilette design for Bath & Body Works Signature Collection, P.S. I Love You
2010 Best Packaging of the Year Award – Women’s Popular Appeal.
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That makes two FiFi award winners for Best Package Design Of The Year (so far), plus one finalist.
See the rest of our work at Handlernyc.com
From New York
Strangely numerical cup handle models from a dinnerware collection I designed for Lenox Brands.
From Montana
A pictograph (also called pictogram or pictogramme) is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object.
Earliest examples of pictographs include ancient or prehistoric drawings or paintings found on rock walls.
Found on the wall of a tunnel near Geraldine, Montana.
So this, I suppose, would be a phonograph?
From Montana
One morning at The Coffee Crossing in Livingston, Montana.
At a Gun Show where I had been taken to shop for my Valentine’s gift.
Didn’t find a gun.
Instead, found these Westclox “purse watches”.
2 3/4 inches in diameter by 5/8 inch thick.
Designed by De Vaulchier & Blow in 1934, they are part of the MoMA design collection.
Ten Dollars each.
They still work.
From Montana
An old rancher’s solution:
The huge suspended boulder keeps this barbed wire fencing taut.
It compensates for changes in temperature, and insistent cows.
From Maryland
Found in a friend’s attic. Marked Hickok.
The Rochester New York based manufacturer Hickok sold belts from the 1930’s to the 1950’s, and packaged some of them in these plastic boxes.
The owner was the great nephew of Wild Bill Hickok.
From Montana
Found in my driveway.
A Great Shape.
According to a horsey friend – it is a reining horse shoe plate – back foot.
So that the horse can slide on it’s feet when asked to do a sliding stop.
How did it get in my driveway?
Bob and Lu’s again….
Rosenthal Trinkkellen Trulla Crystal Drinking Spoons.
Michael Boehm for Rosenthal studio-linie
1960’s
6 3/4 long by 4 1/2 wide
Two Dollars
From Montana
From the eave of my cabin.
From Bob n’ Lou’s New 2 You.
Ivar Alenius Bjork for Ystad-Metall Sweden.
1950’s.
Two Dollars
Got the same one a year ago in a groovy New York vintage store for $80.00.
