Czech Hand-Painted Wood Ramp Walker Pig! unique vase The design on the sides

The design on the sides of the box mimics a woodgrain pattern and is in deeper relief

is printed on a sheet of heavy paper measuring 8 1/4” x 11 1/4”

5" wide x 4" long

and the box seems still to contain most of them--as pictured

a pre-Columbian civilization located in modern day Peru

Czech Hand-Painted Wood Ramp Walker Pig! unique vase The design on the sidesWhat a wonderful pig! I found this beauty in an an antique shop in New Hampshire that had some terrific old wooden things and I was immediately smitten. I don't know much about it but that it appears to be pretty old and is, I think, great from head to toe from those hand painted black and white eyes almost on the very top of its head, to its attached wooden snout detailed with red nose holes and mouth, all over big gray spots, and short upturned rope