Handsome Old Carved Wooden Shorebird Emile Bluteau And a pretty great one

And a pretty great one I think

as one finds in many a portrait of well to do men

attached to the edge

The black headed pins clustered on one of the spools would be used to mark the pattern and to provide points around which the thread

Handsome Old Carved Wooden Shorebird Emile Bluteau And a pretty great oneI found this old carved shorebird in New Hampshire this week and just thought it really beautiful. I'm not at all an expert on bird carvings, but I look at enough of them around these parts to notice when one stands out and feels special. It appears this one may once have one been painted, but most of that is gone now, with the rich brown of the wood body much of what makes it especially lovely to me. 13 3 8" t x 12 5 8" long measured on the square.