Wonderful Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with Little Houses, Flags, and Tower Perched on Push Up Bottom antique first edition who lived at 911 16th

who lived at 911 16th Street somewhere

Details give best sense of color and paint

and all the rarer in great working shape with key

stands up straight on its own

though I can find no reference to Ernst Gravenhorst anywhere

Wonderful Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with Little Houses, Flags, and Tower Perched on Push Up Bottom antique first edition who lived at 911 16thI look at a good number of ships in bottles, but am not sure I've ever seen one done in such deeply recessed (push up) bottom let alone incorporating that indented glass bottom so dramatically into the scene! The bottle is thick pale green blown glass, with some nice big air bubbles in it, and that deep concave bottom serves as a high perch for what looks to me like a tower and a fortess though it also looks a rather like a lighthouse! Several small