Wonderful Trench Art Iron Rest with Diving (?) Woman on the Underside scandanavian spoons How much I love this

How much I love this seal

Unrepaired is a large chip to one leg of the frog

This may be my very favorite sort of find: a resourceful solution to a very specific problem

and to my eye quite extraordinary

and then there is the child next to a totem pole

Wonderful Trench Art Iron Rest with Diving (?) Woman on the Underside scandanavian spoons How much I love thisThis curious thing, one of my favorite recent finds. Clearly it's a piece of trench art, WW2 I would guess, with this fabulous engraved woman with great face and arms raised overhead, who looks to me poised to take a dive, though she does still have her shoes on, so I suppose she might just be doing her morning exercises! The steel object she is carved into, shaped like an ironing board (though also a bit like a diving board) and with heavily bolted