3 Charleston Sweetgrass Baskets, 2 Signed
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Three South Carolina handmade baskets; coiled grasses, rushes, pine needles, palmetto strips: 1. Large basket with lid, signed on base "Edith Coakley"; 10 1/2" x 8", 8"H---2. Small basket with domed lid, signed on base "Karen Smalls" and with her card on interior; 5" dia., 4"H---3. Small basket or jar with lid, unsigned; 5 1/2"W, 4 1/2"H---all in good condition (Edith Coakley's family has made baskets for generations. She and her family were featured in the January 5, 2020, edition of Charleston Living Magazine where Edith "remembers selling homemade sweetgrass baskets as a child for 25 cents each on the side of Hwy. 17 in Mt. Pleasant in the 1950s".---Karen Smalls is a fourth generation sweetgrass basket artist. Her grandmother taught her the art as a small child.)
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3 Charleston Sweetgrass Baskets, 2 Signed
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