![]() ![]() He had put his signature reading ‘Eng’ on the toe of the boot as the last finishing touch to his masterpiece after it was complete in every respect. It is astounding to learn that the artist of this impossible bottle had inserted the bootlaces through their respective holes and tied the knots after the boots had been placed inside the bottle. ![]() The width of each boot is 75 millimetres or nearly double the width of the mouth of the bottle. The diameter of the mouth of the bottle is 38 millimetres whereas the tennis ball inside the bottle has the diameter of 65 millimetres. Peruse the photograph on the right which reminds one about the miraculous passage of the camel through the eye of the needle! People have failed to make any guesses, let alone reasoned assumptions about how the objects quite larger than the diameter of bottles’ mouth have been put into the bottles. Hence, we are going to describe the third method which has been shrouded in mystery for decades. Both the methods of putting big morsels in small mouths are well-known and practiced by many knick-knack-makers all over the world. However, there is not a bit of miracle or magic as far as the ship or the fruit in the bottle is concerned. The fruit, along with its branch is inserted into the bottle through the mouth and neck when it is small enough and allowed to grow to its normal size inside the bottle. The other method is employed when an apple or some other similar sized fruit has been selected as the object for the impossible bottle. Glued components are lowered one after another in the bottle and ‘shipbuilding’ is carried out with tremendous precision using a pair of tongs till a fine specimen of ‘ship in the bottle’ is ready. ![]() Hence it has to be patiently assembled by the artist, component by component inside the bottle. Naturally, the toy ship with all its sails unfurled on all the three masts cannot be slipped through the narrow mouth of the bottle. ![]() One method pertains to bottling sailing ship. There are two different methods followed by artists who specialise in this intriguing art of creating such ‘impossible’ bottles. Transparent glass bottles containing objects bigger than can be permitted by their mouths and slender necks adorn showcases of the drawing rooms in many houses. ![]()
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