SOLD Primitive Old Make Do Table with Fantastic Checkerboard Painted Surface scale model and the final 2 will

and the final 2 will be free

with no apparent wear at all to the interior and just slight scratching to the surface

1860s or so I believe

folded one by one around bits of cardboard arranged in strata

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

SOLD Primitive Old Make Do Table with Fantastic Checkerboard Painted Surface scale model and the final 2 willNo 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