Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with American Flag and Many Houses picnic glasses great anywhere

great anywhere

but I really love speculating about it

An aesthetically stunning object

This hand-thrown mushroom-shaped ikebana vase is one of my very favorite objects ever

But there is a notch mid-way up on the face of the box that will hold the lid open at the mid-point

Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with American Flag and Many Houses picnic glasses great anywhere(A bit tough to photograph, better in person.) I've got a weakness for ships in bottles, which always seem like magic to me, and most especially for ones with backgrounds populated with lots of little wooden houses, like this one. (The houses themselves are very reminiscent of the Erzgebirge ones I love so much, here mostly with cheerful yellow roofs, and I imagine tiny people inside, watching the ships go by!) Three masts to the ship here, with a