Three Ships in Bottles

Description:

Three Ships in Bottles, America and Spain, late 19th/early 20th century, one possibly sailor-made, with a two-masted schooner with bow facing inward, with sails and rigging, flying a Spanish flag, mounted on a painted molded sea with a backdrop depicting a wharf-side with houses and trees, a label affixed to the reverse interior indistinctly inscribed "Pablo Felice Mura Plura de Ata---nay 12-2 Jehna de Mallorca;" a four-masted bark with sails and rigging, flying an American flag on a green-painted molded sea; a three-masted bark with rigging on a molded painted putty sea, with a backdrop on the bottle end with a spire-topped church and trees, lg. 8 1/2, 8 5/8, 10 7/8 in., respectively.
Estimate $300-500

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