OLD ICE SPEAR FISHING DECOY CARVED WOOD TACK EYES TIN FINS TAIL CRACKLED BLACK PAINT ANTIQUE

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Old Antique Weighted Fish Decoy

For Ice Fishing Spear Fishing

10.25 INCHES LONG.
Hand Carved Wood

Old Crackled Black Paint. 

Patinated Brass Tack Eyes.

Sheet Metal / Tin Fins and Tail.
Possibly from
Lake St Clair Michigan
circa 1930s

Missing three of the tin fins. Broken off.

Hollowed Out and Poured Lead/Solder 

Weighted bottom.

The tack eyes are positioned on the top of the head.
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The tail is attached with two tiny nails.

Wire on top of  head looped through
a reamed out channel in the wood.

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Yellow EnamelWare Pitcher Geisha Rickshaw Rebus Cartoon and Benvenuto Cellini Salt Cellar

Vintage  Decorated

Yellow and Black Enamel Ware Pitcher

Large 1 Gallon Capacity 12 Inches Tall

One side is decorated with a comical

rebus cartoon of a Geisha girl / bijin 

riding in a rickshaw / jinrikisha being

 pulled by a peasant man wearing a 

conical coolie hat. 

The rebus in the dialog balloon

consists of the words "GO GO",
the letters SCH, exclamation
points, lightening bolts, asterisks,
stars, a crescent moon and a
bactrian camel.  

I don't know what it all is supposed to
mean. Maybe something bawdy or risque.

The other side of the pitcher is decorated

with a depiction of the famous Benvenuto 

Cellini Salt Cellar Saliera under the words 

"why? hot"

Benvenuto Cellini Salt Cellar Saliera
depicted in black enamel over yellow enamel.

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