Beautiful Old Four Mast Folk Art Ship in a Bottle in Excellent Paint miniature wooden platform no varnish over top

no varnish over top

These were made as teaching toys

one heart on each short side

5” wide x 5” tall

Plus an intensity of tiny carve marks all over

Beautiful Old Four Mast Folk Art Ship in a Bottle in Excellent Paint miniature wooden platform no varnish over topA 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