Terrific Mid-Century Folk Art Ship (the Caronia) in a (1953 Jack Daniels) Bottle vintage display a form of mercury sulfide

a form of mercury sulfide

most worthy of framing or otherwise mounting and displaying

though why the tread on the bottom I'm not sure either

but this is the first set of Chinese spellicans I have had

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

Terrific Mid-Century Folk Art Ship (the Caronia) in a (1953 Jack Daniels) Bottle vintage display a form of mercury sulfideNot 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