A set of old handmade stamps.

[SUP]

It's cold in our area today. Cold enough that USPS says they cannot deliver due to dangerous weather conditions! So stuck at home but happy as, as I heard them say in Idaho, 'a pig in muck'. I love that phrase. So eloquent!

Happy because I found a set of old hand made stamps - all carved onto nails of different sizes, including one that I cannot decide whether it is a coyote or a dog.  In Evaporust right now. I'll put up pics as soon as I get them clean. 

 really do not care whether they are old or vintage or from last year. Their value is in the fact that they are all hand-made. Someone made them, used them and took care of them and now I will do the same.

[dikman]

Cool, I'm looking forward to seeing them.

[SUP]

Here they are. The stand was included with them.

This will go over several posts.

Huh? Not getting uploaded, for some reason. Will try a while later.

Edited 16 hours ago by SUP

[SUP]

Up close, the animal is even more appealing. Coyote perhaps?

 

[Northmount]

2 hours ago, SUP said:

Up close, the animal is even more appealing. Coyote perhaps?

My first impression was a wolf.  Don't know how I arrived at that!

[fredk]

I was thinking; fox

[Northmount]

49 minutes ago, fredk said:

I was thinking; fox

Always ears up like the stamp

[Brokenolmarine]

That's awesome.  If you can't find, or afford, what you need, make it.

Someone did.  Great find... I'll bet the person made a LOT of things with those and loved them.

[dikman]

Nice! There's some useful looking stamps there.

[Dwight]

As a young teenager . . .  my boy scout leader . . . Ellsworth Lynn Beach . . .  taught us to do the same thing.

He made his own leather stamps out of I believe 20 penny nails . . . they were big ones for sure.

May God bless,

Dwight

[SUP]

10 hours ago, fredk said:

I was thinking; fox

 

9 hours ago, Northmount said:

Always ears up like the stamp

Fox it is then. I like how the person who made the stamp did not try to make the face symmetrical - gives it a charming, quizzical look.

 

8 hours ago, Brokenolmarine said:

That's awesome.  If you can't find, or afford, what you need, make it.

I know! Isn't it wonderful? I'm envious. To have the ability as well as the talent to make the stamps so well. They are really well made and the impressions are sharp and clear.

5 hours ago, dikman said:

Nice! There's some useful looking stamps there.

Yes there are. A couple of unusual ones too, at least to me.  I can't wait to use them... once it is less cold and I do not mind wet hands. Right now, I am busy shivering!

4 hours ago, Dwight said:

He made his own leather stamps out of I believe 20 penny nails . . . they were big ones for sure.

Probably something similar. There are some large ones in this lot but some small ones too. I put the rubber bands to prevent them disappearing in that stand. On the large ones, to protect the carved ends when they are on the nail side. Those are really impressive - small and so well carved.

 

[fredk]

Whist browsing the Royal Armouries website I spotted this book.

So it could be a wolf

It is what you want it to be

I have no experience of coyotes. I don't know what they look like. I've only seen one on 'Road Runner' cartoons!

[toxo]

17 hours ago, SUP said:

 really do not care whether they are old or vintage or from last year. Their value is in the fact that they are all hand-made. Someone made them, used them and took care of them and now I will do the same.

That right there Sup is the ethos of this hobby. Hope you get lots of use out of em. Good find.