SHIP IN A BOTTLE
If you have ever seen one of the model schooners or barques made in bottles by the sailors of years ago. you have wondered how they could possibly have been inserted. There is no join or place in the bottle through which the model could have been introduced except by the bottle's neck, and this seems an impossibility. The model may be 3in. or 4in. high, and yet the bottle neck is perhaps no more than an inch wide.
Here is the secret: The boat was constructed, and the masts and sails put on so that they lay flat on the deck. The collapsed model was then pushed through the neck. Then, bj r a cleverlyarranged piece of thread the masts were drawn into an erect position, and the sails were extended. In some cases even the deck broadened out, The thread is then sealed into the mouth of the bottle.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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155SHIP IN A BOTTLE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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