Plant Samples: Oats and Peas, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - A Pair handmade wooden utensils 6" tall x 5 3/8"

6" tall x 5 3/8" at widest and in excellent vintage condition

which just pops (though the polka dotted ends of her obi are pretty great too

especially as I’ve never seen one like it before

it is pretty satisfying to turn the handle round and round

My guess is that it is a Shona sculpture---referring to the modern movement of carved stone sculpture from Zimbabwe that began in the mid-20th century

Plant Samples: Oats and Peas, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - A Pair handmade wooden utensils 6" tall x 5 3/8"Earlier this year I found and quickly sold a bunch of rppcs from the same batch as these two I just went back to the source and dug out this pair I missed the first time around. As a group, the images documented the growth of beans, corn, peas and oats in various soils and combinations, and I just love them as beautiful photographs, for their indexical nature, for the wonderful hand written labels on the planters, and for being, as far as I know,