Lot of Colorfully Painted, Simple Homemade Wooden Houses terra cotta sculpture perfect for housing love letters

perfect for housing love letters or collected treasures of the sea or land

5" w x 4" t (4 7/8" with one head fully up

Leather hinges

and I've got a weakness for images of pipes (which I think relates to Magritte)

17 1/4" x 12 3/4"

Lot of Colorfully Painted, Simple Homemade Wooden Houses terra cotta sculpture perfect for housing love lettersThese aren't antique I'd guess mid 20th c or so but they are pretty terrific, and great fun to arrange and photograph, hence lots of pictures. Great paint schemes, sweet little windows and details painted on a handful of them, and altogether a very happy lot. It seems they were once glued down onto a ground of sorts, I presume arranged to create a whole town I've scraped much of the residue off the bottoms, but a little remains here and there. Strange