19th C. Murray &. Lanman Florida Water Bottle with Original Silver Painted Neck vintage Penobscot basket or wood from an old

or wood from an old crate

seems consistent throughout

A wonderful little finely hand-carved wooden Black Forest bear

The carving is just fantastic

A little toning along the right edge

19th C. Murray &. Lanman Florida Water Bottle with Original Silver Painted Neck vintage Penobscot basket or wood from an oldI just though this was a great looking bottle, for its pale aqua color and proportions and embossed text but especially for its silvery neck, which, from what I've found, was a type of paint used on early versions of this bottle, and which it is pretty rare to find example. Florida Water, developed in the 1830s or so, was a commercially prepared water blending floral essential oils in a water alcohol base, with its name referring to the fabled