Strange Creature! Curiously Beautiful Presumed Mid-Century Hand-Carved Modernist Animal incised stoneware bottle as "Damn the torpedoes

as "Damn the torpedoes

This box is enough to make me want to start writing with a fountain pen—so lovely and transportive

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it become quite a popular little book and so was produced for years to come

Strange Creature! Curiously Beautiful Presumed Mid-Century Hand-Carved Modernist Animal incised stoneware bottle as "Damn the torpedoesA curious creature! What it is meant to be I am really not at all sure. And where it came from I'm not sure either, though I think perhaps Danish modern. An interesting mix of awkward and elegant, feeling a bit like a submarine on four legs, but somehow its proportions adding up to feel quite right and quite resolved. And I must say that this creature, a but surprisingly to me, really holds its own, complementing everything I place near it. 6 1 2" x 4