Boat-Shelf and Ducket.

The base had an antiques auction a few months ago, and we were lucky enough to get a couple great items.  

(Yes, I'm just now getting around to posting about it.)

This shelf is probably the coolest thing I had ever seen.  It used to be a canoe and was transformed into this:

This is our pet 'ducket' - you know, it's a duck bucket - ducket!  Actually, I think it's a goose, but lets not spoil it.  Ben fell in love with it at a preview weeks before the auction and was determined to win it.  So he did!

The glass balls are Japanese sea floats.  Fishers use them as floats on their nets.  A friend of ours here gave them to us - this is only half of them.  Of all our collections, this is probably my favorite (or tied at least with the book collection).