Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with American Flag and Many Houses picnic glasses How not to feel happy

How not to feel happy looking at this

and later had the company manufacture toys for them

I believe this 1947 copy is a first edition

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

great anywhere

Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with American Flag and Many Houses picnic glasses How not to feel happy(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