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SHIP IN A BOTTLE

Captures Man’s Love of Sea

BY LARRY LEMASTERS
LeMasters’ Antique News Service

In Sea Fever, the poet John Masefield captures
the very essence of mankind’s love affair with the
sea, “I must go down to the sea again, for the call
of the running tide is a wild call
and a clear call that may not be
denied.”
While many artists have
vainly tried to capture this
romantic love affair on
canvass, in literature, and in
music, perhaps the greatest
artistic representation of man’s
love of the sea is captured in folk
art, in a simple but intriguing ship in a bottle.
A ship in a bottle, or SIB as collectors call them,
is one type of an “impossible bottle” or a bottle
containing an object that does not appear that it could
fit through the bottle’s mouth. While a ship in a bottle is
the most widely recognized type of impossible bottle, other
common objects found inside of bottles include decks of
cards, tennis balls, padlocks, scissors, coins (a copper penny
in a bottle used to be sold in nearly every tourist shop) and
matchboxes or match book covers.
Continued on Page 3 Gabrielle Rogers recreated this famous scene,
from the movie Jaws, inside a bottle.

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