A large vintage wooden hand carving of a gnome… we think. From a private collection of around twenty folk art style wood carvings that we have acquired and will be listing through August 2024. All from Austria / Germany / Black Forest regions with assorted damage and wear. We were told some of them come from large wooden musical organs that used to be transported around towns, others from churches and chapels and others are from unknown sources but we don’t know the original use of individual pieces.
Sourced: Normandy, France
Made: Austria / Germany / Black Forest
Material: wood
Size: roughly 36 x 18 x 13 cm – 14 x 7 x 5 inches
Weight: 1.62 kg (likely over 2kg when safely wrapped so expensive to ship)
Age: circa 1950’s may be considerably older
Condition: in vintage condition, scratches and scrapes and extensive damage, dusty, missing / damage to one arm (missing), top of one boot, tarnish and patina, splits to wood from drying out over the decades, structurally sound, please see all pictures closely
Shipped from France