Charming Little Striped German Erzgebirge / Putz Houses, A Pair wooden drawing tool This is not quite as

This is not quite as large as a baseball

but never a double pair of legs

with a nice wildness to the leaves furling in every direction

and the back is a pretty marvelous almost grain-painted looking whit/pale blue/rose

Charming Little Striped German Erzgebirge / Putz Houses, A Pair wooden drawing tool This is not quite asThe hand painted red stripes on these two completely delights me, I would guess intended to make them look Christmas y, but to me making them look quite carnivalesque! Terrific painted roofs, too. German, I think these would be described as Putz, which evolved from the German word "putzen" meaning to clean or to decorateas beginning in the late 19th c. or so these were used to decorate around Christmas nativity scenes. I believe this pair dates to the