Beautiful Old Four Mast Folk Art Ship in a Bottle in Excellent Paint miniature wooden platform into which the sliding lid

into which the sliding lid fits perfectly

Plus an intensity of tiny carve marks all over

lusty + awkward

would be issued in 1842

one heart on each short side

Beautiful Old Four Mast Folk Art Ship in a Bottle in Excellent Paint miniature wooden platform into which the sliding lidA real beauty of an old folk art ship in a bottle, which I found yesterday in New Hampshire and believe dates to the about the first decade of the 20th century. Wonderfully done, with four masts supporting a complex matrix of pulled thread lines, all still held taut, and then this fabulous paint job below, with graphic black and white for the hull, and then blue dabs on white for the sea it sails upon, looking like a sponge painted pattern. Plus what