Vintage Folk Art Ship in a Haig & Haig Bottle cherry tree designer Eileen Gray

designer Eileen Gray

with hinges on the backside of each sweetly cutout bird (three facing one direction

who I am confident is him

and backed with thin muslin

nice wooden stems--they look positively ready to slice up and put on the cheese board

Vintage Folk Art Ship in a Haig & Haig Bottle cherry tree designer Eileen GrayI think it's the approaching summer (and the accompanying fantasies of going sailing) that is drawing me to ships in a bottle of late; this is the second I've found in just a few weeks. I've learned that Haig & Haig whiskey bottles were the choice of many a ship in a bottle makers, due I believe to the voluminous, dimpled or pinched shape. I believe this one dates to the 1940s or so and features a three mast ship with American flag raised at the