Five Sweet Little Carved, Painted Erzgebirge Animals prison cards Nicely carved head with open

Nicely carved head with open mouth and white teeth inside

and some staining and crazing to the interior

which is a good thing for a pin cushion and also allows it to stand upright should one wish just to display it on a shelf front facing

or as the mechanism for making or displaying a spooled drawing

Five Sweet Little Carved, Painted Erzgebirge Animals prison cards Nicely carved head with openJust as I believe one can never have too many color cubes, so do I believe one can never have too many little carved German Erzgebirge animals (or houses for that matter!) And the paint on these, especially on the creamy white and orange little piggies, is excellent. There were a few others in this batch with lost limbs, so they don't stand (I didn't photograph them) i'll happily send them along, too. (I've seen toothpicks work pretty well as peg