$300
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.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-02-19
