Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels clever drawings complete deck of 32 Piatnik

complete deck of 32  Piatnik & Söhne “Sehr Feine Aufschlagkarten” fortune telling cards

giving "my girl" a certain elusiveness

Isobel Field

which I think may be British

repeated four times around the perimeter of the basket

Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels clever drawings complete deck of 32 PiatnikI found this one at Brimfield in the booth of a delightful seller who always has charming things; it was filled end to end with a bunch of old children's books, but happily she was willing to relocate those into a big pile and let me steal the shelf away, as I'm pretty smitten with these squirrels! Made with lots of love I'd bet by a parent or grandparent as a gift for a young child in the 1940s or 50s, with mellow gold paint on the exterior of the