Czech Hand-Painted Wood Ramp Walker Pig! traditional costume Just a charming little vintage

Just a charming little vintage trinket box made of paper mache in the shape of a turtle and lacquered in gold and black

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and special thanks from the authors to Gropius

This vintage Danish Modern Viking figure

which seems at once fierce and friendly

Czech Hand-Painted Wood Ramp Walker Pig! traditional costume Just a charming little vintageWhat a wonderful pig! I found this beauty in an an antique shop in New Hampshire that had some terrific old wooden things and I was immediately smitten. I don't know much about it but that it appears to be pretty old and is, I think, great from head to toe from those hand painted black and white eyes almost on the very top of its head, to its attached wooden snout detailed with red nose holes and mouth, all over big gray spots, and short upturned rope