SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays handmade wooden lion a German artist and sculptor

a German artist and sculptor best known for his exquisitely crafted--and highly collectible--series of 24 small brass figurines representing Judaic characters

and is four layers deep on its sides and three on its back

and under her simple cotton dress a smartly wrapped undergarment fastened with a safety pin

or just added to a stack

listed separately

SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays handmade wooden lion a German artist and sculptorSo fun, and clearly so much love invested in these. And hard to look at these and not want to know all about Martha and Walter and Elfredia I'd say good fodder for a short story. The full scale and general nature of them makes me imagine that they were not made by a father for his children, say, but rather perhaps for a group of three siblings still living together in their old age who knows?! How wonderfully crafted they were in any event, late 19th