SOLD -- Forest Altar Set
As your home altar or packed up for a day in the forest or field, this set has all you'll need to commune with nature. Everything fits inside the basket for easy travel. Featuring: 1970s USSR boline knife, Sarna brass bell, Chinese sewing basket, Meka Denmark salt spoon, 200-million-year-old petrified wood, and more. See below for details of each piece.
As your home altar or packed up for a day in the forest or field, this set has all you'll need to commune with nature. Everything fits inside the basket for easy travel. Featuring: 1970s USSR boline knife, Sarna brass bell, Chinese sewing basket, Meka Denmark salt spoon, 200-million-year-old petrified wood, and more. See below for details of each piece.
As your home altar or packed up for a day in the forest or field, this set has all you'll need to commune with nature. Everything fits inside the basket for easy travel. Featuring: 1970s USSR boline knife, Sarna brass bell, Chinese sewing basket, Meka Denmark salt spoon, 200-million-year-old petrified wood, and more. See below for details of each piece.
You will receive:
TOOLS
Athame—Vintage—Russian garden boline knife, 4.375" long folded, 7.5" long open, 3.125" long blade. Dates from 1970s Soviet Russia/USSR. Modeled after Minchurinsky number 2 (M-2) knives carried in USSR military medical bags. Faux mother-of-pearl handle is in great condition. Stains and minor pitting on the blade. Recently cleaned and lightly sharpened.
Bell—Vintage—Engraved Sarna brass bell on long handle, 4" long total (bell is 0.875" long, handle is 3" long). Marked "Sarna." Excellent condition.
Bottle—Vintage—Green Wheaton ball and claw bitters bottle, 3" tall. Dates from the 1970s. No chips or cracks, possibly a couple scratches. Sterilized, new cork. Very good condition.
Incense Burner—Vintage—Brass two-handled incense burner dish with three feet, 3" diameter, 4" wide with handle, 1" tall. Dates from the 1990s. Minimal signs of use at the center, otherwise in very good condition.
Altar Cloth—Vintage—Solid green cotton hanky, 10.125" by 10.875". No pulls, stains, or tears. Excellent vintage condition.
Meditation Focus—Raw—Petrified wood slab, 3.25" by 2" at widest points. Quarried near Ankondromena in western Madagascar. Dates from the Triassic Era (252-201 million years ago). Polished on front side, raw edges, rough cut on the back
Mortar & Pestle—Vintage—White ceramic mortar and pestle, 2.625" diameter by 1.625 tall mortar, 2.75" long pestle. Dates from the 1970s. Excellent condition.
Basket—Vintage, possibly Antique—Plain dark-tone Chinese sewing basket, 9" diameter, 2.75" tall. Beautiful basket (one of my favorites) in very good condition. Signed under the lid. Holds everything included in the complete set. Dates from between 1880 and 1930.
Box—Vintage—Shaker-style birchwood trinket box, 2.5" diameter, 4" tall. Holds all the vials included in the Accessories Set. Very good condition.
Spoon—Vintage—Meka Denmark silverplate salt spoon with ivy design on handle, 2.375" long. Dates from between 1951 and 1989. Shows some signs of age, but is still in good condition.
Crystal—Raw—Apache tear, 1" at widest point.
Candles—Handmade, New—Three green beeswax stake candles.
ACCESSORES
one vial of ten black matches
one 10ml vial lavender
one 10ml vial calendula
one 10ml vial pink Himalayan salt
one 5ml vial black tourmaline chips
one 15ml vial benzoin resin
one 2ml dropper altar oil (frankincense, myrrh, and cedarwood essential oils in almond carrier oil)
one box HEM patchouli cone incense
three mini pinecones
one porcupine quill
one 80-foot spool of 2mm cotton twine
one white beeswax tea light candle
one tube of ten charcoals
one mini funnel