SOLD Intricately Carved Small Bottle Shaped Ball in Cage Whimsy vintage first aid kit I'm not really sure whether

I'm not really sure whether to call this penny covered bottle folk art or tramp art or just plain crafty

I've done some searching and found a number of Schortmann's from my neck of the woods near Boston

better known as Miss Love

The larger ship on the front I believe is a Blackwall Frigate

SOLD Intricately Carved Small Bottle Shaped Ball in Cage Whimsy vintage first aid kit I'm not really sure whetherA charming small whimsy, and an unusual one as far as I've ever seen, shaped like a bottle I am thinking perhaps made as a toy rattle to emulate a baby bottle, and there's even some darkening to the bottom as if heated over a stove! Skillfully carved with a lovely intricacy to the neck of the bottle and "walls" at either end of the cage, which houses a very roundly caved ball. It will stand on its own on from the opening end but takes a flat surface