Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! green soapstone with ebony backs

with ebony backs

and second in terms of surface

I've become quite a fan of late 19th century punch paper embroideries

the sheep just to her left would quite like to have her lamb back

such that it now reminds me very much of the roothead coot decoys I so love

Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! green soapstone with ebony backsI bought this one at Brimfield from a marvelous dealer whom I've bought a series of small wonders. Though a lover of ships in bottles, I myself had never seen a ship in a lightbulb before, which struck me as brilliantly resourceful and also enhancing of the sense of wonder these provoke in me at least. Of course, given the ingeniousness of folk creators, I have since turned up documentation of a few other examples, most dating to the 1940s or so, and