Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! reaching hand and Russian prices are pretty

and Russian prices are pretty good

It's the man and woman

Watercolor is mounted to backing paper (original to it

with what appear to be handwritten numbers on the recessed wood tiles

but the knowledgable dealer I purchased it from classified it as a card case

Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! reaching hand and Russian prices are prettyI 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