Especially Lovely Old Folk Art/Sailor Made Knotwork Covered Molded Blown Glass Bottle tin match holder And eggs are especially timely

And eggs are especially timely (and hard to come by) at the moment

With a little research into the style of their veils

and the icon at center looks to me like a little mole or gopher turning up a 'shroom--though perhaps I'm imagining that

not the date

Especially Lovely Old Folk Art/Sailor Made Knotwork Covered Molded Blown Glass Bottle tin match holder And eggs are especially timelyWhat I find tends to tell the story of where I've been last weekend I was up in Maine, with a handful of nautically related things today, though I wasn't considering that at the time. At least I presume the knot work encasing this old bottle was done by a sailor it feels that way to me, skillfully done and very tight on the bottle, and seeming more akin to an old bottle whimsy or sailor made basket than a wicker covered wine bottle, say. And with the