Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 1814
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 71
Notes:
"Predating the still-popular ship in a bottle, the reel in a bottle was considered a type of puzzle. Some were made by placing the collapsed reel in the bottle; when the poles were expanded, the yarn wrapped tightly around them. Others were actually constructed through the narrow mouth of the bottle." The Peale Museum's example may have resembled this American one ca. 1830s in the East India Marine Society Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
