Much Eroded Old Cast Metal Submarine vintage pacakging I Austen Company

I Austen Company

The ex voto gives thanks to Juan Diego (the first Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas and pictured at upper left) for giving him the great strength to achieve the very difficult task of beating the bug

along with these these

Or just leave it on the sideboard or the night stand to look pretty all of the time

Both show wear and some rust

Much Eroded Old Cast Metal Submarine vintage pacakging I Austen CompanyI have no idea the original maker of this submarine, cast iron it seems, but it certainly looks ancient now, and as if it has been long lost at sea! I love it for precisely that reason, and for the fin at what I guess is the top looking rather like a tsunami. This feels like the sort of thing that should give rise to a novel or a screenplay, so evocative and with a bit of an eeriness about it, as if dug up post apocalypse. 4 5 8 l x 1 3 4 t x 1 1 4 w.