Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! green soapstone I've become quite a fan

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

making me think most likely this was a school drawing

Somewhat uneven top edge as evident

I'm a big fan of old sailor made baskets--in part because I really love the idea of men at sea sitting around doing macrame in their spare time

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

Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! green soapstone I've become quite a fanI 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