Terrific Mid-Century Folk Art Ship (the Caronia) in a (1953 Jack Daniels) Bottle vintage display I then opened the box

I then opened the box to discover the whetstone inside--making this quite the useful box

and if not displaying a few favorite dolls

and with a trumpeter in the mix

a form of mercury sulfide

Of course I like it for the EYE (as in Critical Eye

Terrific Mid-Century Folk Art Ship (the Caronia) in a (1953 Jack Daniels) Bottle vintage display I then opened the boxNot antique, but really a wonderfully done, large ish folk art ship in a bottle, complete with choppy blue sea, houses and a lighthouse dotting the shore, and hand painted flag waving. The RMS Caronia was a British transatlantic steam ocean liner launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1932, which served as a merchant cruiser and then a troop ship in WWI. This carefully carved and painted wooden version does her great justice I thinksuch a proud looking