Penny Covered Folk Art Bottle unique trivet Nice and heavy

Nice and heavy

There is variation to the clay body

This is an old wood--I think perhaps beech--and forged iron spokeshave

with a handy six inch ruler on the back

orange and yellow

Penny Covered Folk Art Bottle unique trivet Nice and heavyI'm not really sure whether to call this penny covered bottle folk art or tramp art or just plain crafty, but I rather love it. Part of what I think makes it great is its utter impracticality this thing weighs about 10 pounds! so while the cork in the bottle implies that it might be filled, it would be quite a thing to pour from! I also love the tenacity heroicism, really of its maker, who persisted in gluing these pennies one by one, layer by layer,