Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with American Flag and Many Houses cm mallory looks to me both like

looks to me both like a face and like a little turtle coming to the end of a long path

The paint on this lidded

The bowl of the spoon features a lightly carved flower and vine pattern on both front and back

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Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with American Flag and Many Houses cm mallory looks to me both like(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