- SDJones Home | List of known artists and locations | Contact me (email) | Whimsey bottles, or puzzle bottles, are constructions or scenes assembled inside bottles. The earliest examples of the art form date from the eighteenth century, but most seem to date from 1890-1930. The most well-known form is a ship, but almost anything that can be built or whittled has been put into a bottle and can ...www.sdjones.net/FolkArt