Sweet Little Antique Handmade Key Hole Saw with Fat Handle beautiful playing cards Photograph measures 9" x 7

Photograph measures 9" x 7 3/4"

with roses and bluebells and pansies and strawberries and who knows what all spilling out

and know that these flasks were very popular with soldiers

perhaps a little earlier

with some nice craquelure to the surface of the arrow

Sweet Little Antique Handmade Key Hole Saw with Fat Handle beautiful playing cards Photograph measures 9" x 7This tiny saw I plucked along with the heart clamp and stair saw also listed today from a small trove and an antique shop in Midcoast Maine that I think all came from one collection. I think it could be called a pad saw, or keyhole saw, but it's an especially small one, made long ago for a very specific job I would guess. I'm not at all a tool expert, but I do appreciate a sculpturally satisfying, well designed thing when I see one, especially one