Beautiful Old Four Mast Folk Art Ship in a Bottle in Excellent Paint watercolor on board ) Now that I have

) Now that I have a set in hand some 40 years later

just a bit of toning to the white cotton fabric

How not to feel happy with this guy around

complemented in just the right way by the olive-y green painted bands at center

Beautiful Old Four Mast Folk Art Ship in a Bottle in Excellent Paint watercolor on board ) Now that I haveA real beauty of an old folk art ship in a bottle, which I found yesterday in New Hampshire and believe dates to the about the first decade of the 20th century. Wonderfully done, with four masts supporting a complex matrix of pulled thread lines, all still held taut, and then this fabulous paint job below, with graphic black and white for the hull, and then blue dabs on white for the sea it sails upon, looking like a sponge painted pattern. Plus what