Antique Heavy Brass Horseshoe Mounted to Ship Painting on Wood antique color samples It's the lovely handwritten paper

It's the lovely handwritten paper label on the side of this box that sold me on it

8 1/2" l x 2 1/4" t x 2 1/8" w and in very good condition

I'll never pass by an antique Burmese lacquer betel box if I can afford it--which increasingly I can't

detailing where the bunks

scratch made of tin

Antique Heavy Brass Horseshoe Mounted to Ship Painting on Wood antique color samples It's the lovely handwritten paperA perfect one for a sailor, to bring good luck whenever he or she sets out to sea, though surely a sailboat is also a good metaphor for venturing out in the world generally, so a good one for everyone! This is quite an old horseshoe, hand forged of iron I believe and painted what is now a much mellowed gold. It was mounted to a piece of wood, pine I think, now with a very dark dry patina on the back where exposed, and on the facing side this lovely