Amazing House in a Bottle Whimsy with Man Smoking Cigar and Two People Inside! mid-century creative playthings but just a nice vintage

but just a nice vintage hand-thrown bowl

each filled front and back

A tube inside at the neck allows a finger or two inside to animate this endearing creature

I believe it is likely the oldest

9/16" across at hanging end

Amazing House in a Bottle Whimsy with Man Smoking Cigar and Two People Inside! mid-century creative playthings but just a nice vintageBottle whimsies always blow my mind, but this one pretty much explodes it! Much better experienced in person than in photographs, housed inside this large bottle is a wooden house with red roof and blue trim sitting on red painted wooden platform, with a figure smoking a cigar sitting on the porch and two figures inside looking out the tiny windows! The sides of the house are decorated with hand drawn trees and flowers and blue painted curtains, while