Sensational Sand Bottle Sale

July 4th is coming up, and that means celebrating Independence Day with traditions like fireworks, flags, parades, picnics and sand bottles. Well, that last one might not be your typical tradition, but they’re a fascinating piece of American folk art. A 10 1/2 -inch-tall sand bottle by Andrew Clemens made for the United States Centennial […]

Andrew Clemens Sand Bottle Art

Sand bottles still sell. We have written about Andrew Clemens bottles before, and they keep selling for high prices. Clemens was a folk artist in McGregor, Iowa, who lived from 1857 to 1894. He started making sand bottles when he was a teenager. These bottles have intricate pictures made from different colors of sand carefully […]