Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! green soapstone tethered leg

tethered leg

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

Signed (incised) E Bolz (for Elaine Bolz) on the undersides - bio below

Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! green soapstone tethered legI 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