Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket eyes Both in great vintage condition

Both in great vintage condition

late 19th century US Army

and am pretty confident thinking this dates to earlier than the 19th century

or enough chocolates to make it through the week

and statements by the architect(s)

Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket eyes Both in great vintage conditionA sailor made macrame basket, late 19th century or so, as large as I've see and rather amazingly still with its lid (with very sweet scalloped edge) and with this unusually wide, open weave on the sides, pushing the limits of the basket form and making it feel equally like a cage in which one might carry home a canary or a live fish! (Found in Maine, I might think it was a lobster trap that inspired it!) As Ive said before, antique sailor made baskets