Pair of Early 20th C. Glass Turpentine Bottles with Great Labels staffordshire spill vase Grenfell handicrafts like this letter

Grenfell handicrafts like this letter opener were done by patients recovering in the hospital

tiny hands

I think it would also be happy attached to a post and stuck outside in the garden to keep watch over the veggies

akin to stone lions or sphinx's but finely carved of wood--and most welcoming

I think it is fantastic--reminding me of a pre-historic sort of a bird

Pair of Early 20th C. Glass Turpentine Bottles with Great Labels staffordshire spill vase Grenfell handicrafts like this letterI found these two bottes in New Hampshire, not far from Portsmouth, where they were filled with turpentine by F. A. Gray & Co. and Glazer Fox more than 100 years ago I believe. Admittedly, I didn't come across a lot of dazzling finds in the past few days, but sometimes that makes one slow down and find beauty in unexpected forms and I must say, to my eye, these are quite beautiful things, with their satisfying shapes and excellent paper labels. And,