Vintage Folk Art Ship in a Haig & Haig Bottle cherry tree nice wooden stems--they look positively

nice wooden stems--they look positively ready to slice up and put on the cheese board

with hinges on the backside of each sweetly cutout bird (three facing one direction

made of three carved layers of wood

His dowel is 10" long

designer Eileen Gray

Vintage Folk Art Ship in a Haig & Haig Bottle cherry tree nice wooden stems--they look positivelyI think it's the approaching summer (and the accompanying fantasies of going sailing) that is drawing me to ships in a bottle of late; this is the second I've found in just a few weeks. I've learned that Haig & Haig whiskey bottles were the choice of many a ship in a bottle makers, due I believe to the voluminous, dimpled or pinched shape. I believe this one dates to the 1940s or so and features a three mast ship with American flag raised at the