Perfectly Labeled Antique Horn Shoe Horn taco silver overlay bottle The level of detail in

The level of detail in this vintage Peruvian retablo just blows me away--with layers upon layers of simultaneous drama painstakingly packed into an 8" x 10" inch space

Handmade of hardboard

I’ll never resist an old piece of tabletop architecture built from scratch if I can help it

and could be made to cast some wonderfully dramatic shadows

Perfectly Labeled Antique Horn Shoe Horn taco silver overlay bottle The level of detail inThe combination of a true horn shoe horn combined with an antique label announcing it as such gives me great pleasure because, of course, a shoe horn takes its name from being made of horn so the label makes this horn actually triply defined. And the underline of "shoe" makes it even better, so as to be sure to distinguish it from a piece of horn to be used for some other purpose. Plus its just beautiful, surface wise and sculpturally, from both