Liberty-esque Antique Grulich Pointing Angel king The scalloped edge of the

The scalloped edge of the creamy white painted handle really does it for me

and some of the powder substance still inside--an iron carbonate used extensively in the early to mid 19th century for treating everything from anemia to hemorrhages to yellow fever (typically dissolved in acid and mixed with alcohol form what I can tell

with a second drawing on reverse of what looks to be a tank

this one more the latter

Liberty-esque Antique Grulich Pointing Angel king The scalloped edge of theI took her for Lady Liberty before I realized she was an angel, and I love the conflation. This is a Grulich nativity figure not too far a cry from German Erzgebirge carvings, but their own thing, created in what is now called Krliky in the Czech Republic, at the foot of the Eagle Mountains in Northern Bohemia. Apparently, Emperor Joseph II. forbade any Christmas nativities in churches, after which, beginning in the early 1800s, the Grulich area began