French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set antlers This hide shows some age

This hide shows some age but this mask is in excellent

3 3/4" across at base and 5 1/2" across from edge to edge of lip (vase opening measures 3 1/4" inside from of the glass lip

though I'm not sure why the two small holes at bottom (which just barely go all the way through

I especially love the man and woman at either end

there are some light scratches to the surface of the white frame

French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set antlers This hide shows some ageI have a weakness for old figurative skittles or nine pins, and hard to beat a set of nine that includes both soldiers AND sailors! I'm not entirely sure if they were a combined set to begin with or came together at some later point, but I am pretty certain they are French, and 1940s at the latest. The outfits and colors are great, and I especially love the facial expressions, with eyes all looking in one direction, as if toward a rolling ball coming