Super Sweet Set of Handmade Wooden Houses c. 1940s enamel jewelry with a little surface cracking

with a little surface cracking to the wood right down the center of the MEAT

and his profile is pretty terrific too

and an original Nickel Plate Road logo sticker on the opposite side

This one--oil on unstretched canvas

Super Sweet Set of Handmade Wooden Houses c. 1940s enamel jewelry with a little surface crackingPure joy. I'm forever looking for little painted wooden houses like these (like next generation American folk art versions of early German Erzgebirge villages) but pretty much never find them, and what could be better than the color combinations here? With carefully cutout wooden doors nailed to their fronts, and hand painted paned windows on each and every one too. Satisfying like a great set of old homemade painted building blocks, but even better,