Ceramic Fish with Teeth! small plate set ) I like to think

) I like to think this is the box in which Nathaniel Hawthorne delivered the handwritten manuscript for "House of the Seven Gables" (based in Salem

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The lid is slightly bent in one place

It is signed on the bottom with what appears to be an FJ to start

which allowed for clicking through multiple images on rotating cardboard disks

Ceramic Fish with Teeth! small plate set ) I like to thinkSuch a fabulous fish! I know nothing of its origins, but it's one of my favorite things. I found it at the estate sale of an artist and gallerist on Newbury Street in Boston, who dealt mostly in Haitian art but had a wonderful, eclectic collection of handmade objects from around the world. Those teeth! I love its roughness and the darkness of the clay body, decorated only with some blue glazing on the tail fin. Nice and heavy, with a terrific