Tiny Ship in a Bottle Patented 1889 otherwise great condition

otherwise great condition

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I really love them just as drawings and would be inclined to mount and frame them in small groupings--but if viewed through an old stereograph one could experience the 3-dimensional effect of the merger of each pair of images

I just love the linear patterns and texture created by the painstakingly cut and laid matchsticks

and I think was used by him or her quite a bit

Tiny Ship in a Bottle Patented 1889 otherwise great conditionSince finding a winder in a bottle whimsy this past summer, I've started paying some attention to ships in bottles, too, though I don't really know enough to distinguish fine ones from cheap tourist souvenirs. This is the first one I've really fallen in love with tiny (which I always prefer), upright, and super sweet, with two masts and three little paper sails on a blue boat amid a green sea. I really love love this, and have a sense that the bottle