My Father Found And Bought This At A Garage Sale Last Week. It's Cool To The Touch, And The Little Doors Make A Clinking Sound, So I'm Guessing It's Carved Stone
It looks like it features images from the Nativity of Christ--the overall shape being the stable where he was born. Based on the artistic style, possibly Coptic (Ethiopian Christians)? Their iconography looks extremely similar.
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Maggy 2 month s ago
Great post Izi thanks!
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Joanna 2 month s ago
Love these! Keep 'em coming!
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Patricia 2 month s ago
#4 Soup spoon for mustachioed men.
#10 The expandable opening for a missing fabric purse.
#10 The expandable opening for a missing fabric purse.
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Aquilla 2 month s ago
#9 The surreal writing is Sütterlin, old german handwriting and it says: Stadtsparkasse Bielefeld (City Bank of Bielefeld)
It apparantly was valid till the 1st of April 1922.
That sort of Money was issued in lots of communities during the times of Hyperinflation in Germany till 1924-ish.
It apparantly was valid till the 1st of April 1922.
That sort of Money was issued in lots of communities during the times of Hyperinflation in Germany till 1924-ish.
#10 The expandable opening for a missing fabric purse.
It apparantly was valid till the 1st of April 1922.
That sort of Money was issued in lots of communities during the times of Hyperinflation in Germany till 1924-ish.