Large, Very Beautiful Antique Carved Wood and Cork Fishing Float 1873 and aside from a couple

and aside from a couple tiny losses to her left shoulder on the exterior

Sports Illustrated

which lends itself to the display of a couple of small sprigs or something significantly more dramatic

who I might guess went on to become his wife

who the man on the right most certainly is

Large, Very Beautiful Antique Carved Wood and Cork Fishing Float 1873 and aside from a coupleI'm a sucker for beautiful fishing floats, which I find super satisfying objects, in terms of both painted surface and form (plus they're easy to hang!) and this is among the most beautiful I've seen. Wonderfully (and to my eye very lovingly) painted yellow bands over the red on the stem at both ends as well as on the cork body of the float, and then this beautifully carved ring bead near the end, red with a yellow stripes around the perimeter. Really