Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! modern ceramic vase and I'd think more likely

and I'd think more likely sometime late-ish 1910s-20s

including for the diversity and often unusualness --at least to contemporary eyes--of its contents

7 13/16" x 6 5/8"

with a wind-up key on the side of the wheelbarrow which would make it move

and one a bit larger than the other

Old Folk Art Ship in a Lightbulb! modern ceramic vase and I'd think more likelyI bought this one at Brimfield from a marvelous dealer whom I've bought a series of small wonders. Though a lover of ships in bottles, I myself had never seen a ship in a lightbulb before, which struck me as brilliantly resourceful and also enhancing of the sense of wonder these provoke in me at least. Of course, given the ingeniousness of folk creators, I have since turned up documentation of a few other examples, most dating to the 1940s or so, and