Especially Lovely Old Folk Art/Sailor Made Knotwork Covered Molded Blown Glass Bottle certain lion though once the purview of

though once the purview of the wealthy

but I'll take a boldly carved lid like this any day of the week

) Lavater (1741 – 1801) was a  Swiss poet

as if a poor man's version of an Oscar

with what looks like a carved boot at the end of the handle

Especially Lovely Old Folk Art/Sailor Made Knotwork Covered Molded Blown Glass Bottle certain lion though once the purview ofWhat 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