Lightship

This is a painting of mine on an old driftwood door panel I found on the beach. The ship is the lightship Overfalls, which marked the location of the Overfalls Shoal in the entrance to the Delaware Bay for many years. A facsimile of this ship is on display as a museum in lewes, Delaware.

It's Fish Knife Friday #20

This is the last fish knife that I have (at present). I'll need to think up some other gimmick for Fridays if this is to continue.

More stuff I pulled from the water #9

This is a bottle from Sun Spot soda that I found on the beach of Port Mahon, Delaware many years ago. The other side claims that this soda is "The food you drink". Makes you wonder if it tasted like meatloaf or something...

Continental sword

This little pig sticker is an artillery short sword, likely from continental Europe from the 1800's. It's got an all brass hilt with a stylized eagle head pommel. The leather scabbard is in fair shape, and the blade has faint etchings of military/artillery themed images and is stamped E.G. near the hilt. It's only about 22" long, so the kid thinks this is his. It isn't.

Parlor pistol redux

Yet another German made parlor on the same frame as the one I blogged about last week, but with a longer 10" barrel. The action's a little sticky on this one, but it does work. By the way, that's a US quarter down below of scale, but the flash made it hard to see because of reflection.

Black skull

This skull and crossbones atop a handmade glass marble was commissioned by the missus for me as a holiday gift. It was made by our friend Jeremy at Holder of the Stone, who has made several nice commissioned pieces for us over the years, including a one-of-kind (decorative) glass fishing lure for my father-in-law. This guy here is about 1.5" across (the marble) and has a cool swirling vortex effect inside.

If you like glass jewelry and sculptures, just check out Jeremy's work. I've watched it increase in complexity and quality over the years. Photos fail to bring out the depth of the glass.

An odd duck...

No really. It is.

This is a hand carved wooden duck, in flight, and is reportedly from the Philippines. He's well over a foot long from bill to tail, and is about the same width from wing tip to wing tip. He was called a "mold" at the weird old store where I found him, but I'm not sure what one would "mold" with this. As I understand it, a mold is a cavity into which something is pressed/cast, and this guy has no cavities that I can see. Anyway, the little fishing line visible in the image is so I can hang him up from the ceiling - he balances quite nicely and looks alive.