Bottle 1245 - Daniel Rose Chairs and Rocker in a Bottle

1902 Daniel Rose 3 Chairs in Bottle. The rocking chair is not glued down and is free to move just as Rose intended. Sitting in each chair on top are wooden vases filled with cattails (bulrushes). The sheaves are made of long thin strips of cut wood. The vases are wrapped in silver tinsel thread. It measures 9 3/4" tall x 3 3/4" wide x 2 1/2" deep.

This is one of the earliest known bottles made by Artist, Daniel Rose and the only chairs and rocker bottle known to date tof his that still exist. It was built on September 3, 1902 in Elton, Pennsylvania. It is built on two floor levels with a rocking chair on the bottom floor that has a drawn square patterned floor with diagonal lines forming an "X" in each square. The upper floor is supported by a wooden post in each corner of the bottle. The floor has the same square pattern without the diagonals. There are two identical chairs side-by-side. On each chair are identical wooden vases with large red flowers and long wooden grasses around the flowers. The vases have a pattern drawn around the edges.

Under the bottom floor is the following written in pencil: "No. 33 Sept. 3 1902, Daniel Rose, Elton, Pa.". The bottle is sealed with a cork. This is the 33 bottle built by Daniel Rose.