Lovely Vintage Pine Needle Basket Tray with Handles spotted pig and then that top hat

and then that top hat

Along the left edges of the backsides are button closures

and certainly could be used as such--and I must say it makes a very strong argument for the return of buying blocks of ice and chipping ice by hand

which I believe it was constructed around

I think it is just a fantastic little thing

Lovely Vintage Pine Needle Basket Tray with Handles spotted pig and then that top hatThis pine needle basket tray, probably mid 20th century and Coushatta (Southeast U. S native), is just lovely, with a terrific interplay between the warm brown of the pine needles and the light stitching, which creates a spiral pattern as it joins one pine needle bundle to the next. Plus those beautifully knotted "golden sun" details at the handles and center! The basket, which I believe was made to hold a pie plate, seems to have been finished with a