SOLD Primitive Old Make Do Table with Fantastic Checkerboard Painted Surface scale model and the images

and the images

dots on the tops

I just can't resist these old German animals when I find them--except when they are exorbitantly priced

joined by bent wires and painted silver many years ago —which has mellowed quite nicely

SOLD Primitive Old Make Do Table with Fantastic Checkerboard Painted Surface scale model and the imagesNo way could I resist the surface on this one. It's a child scale table, with the three boards on top I might guess cut down from something else with the paint already on them. whatever the case, the salmon colored squares against black field really do it for me! (It seems the salmon paint stain came first, with the squares masked out and the black paint applied.) The legs of the table were hand carved, tapering toward the ends, with one leaning in a