Fabulous Very Old Noah's Ark with Six Wonderful Creatures embossing co color cubes with the back sides just

with the back sides just as great as the fronts

) beatific face

and I'd think either put to work annually for many years

There is some darkening and one small nick in the wood at the round of the handle

I found it filled with old hardware

Fabulous Very Old Noah's Ark with Six Wonderful Creatures embossing co color cubes with the back sides justOh goodness, this is an old one, with one half of the ark's roof open and only six animals in the flock, but what fantastic ones they, and it, are! I'm more or less certain the set is 19th century German, and while I'm eyeing these old Noah's arks all the time I've never seen one a set with animals as good as these, made of three carved layers of wood, joined together with irregularly spaced, beautifully bleeding hand forged nails, and individually