Antique Erzgebirge Houses and Churches - Set of Eight crossing signs and it is wonderfully wonky

and it is wonderfully wonky

I found another of a very similar animal form in a very similar manner described as a fox (image included in photos)--that one 19th century and described as carved by a shaman for a hunter to carry as as a sort of amulet or charm

England artist William Burgess (1805–1861)-- a painter and drawing master

I don't believe these detract at all

or for scooping salt

Antique Erzgebirge Houses and Churches - Set of Eight crossing signs and it is wonderfully wonkyI never can resist German Erzgebirge houses when they are nice old ones like this with great color and lots of little windows. I believe these eight are a mixed set, half c. 1890s or so, and half, with the more detailed windows, c. 1910. I love them together though, and think I may like them best treated like little blocks and stacked up on end! To my eye such satisfying little things. White church measures 2 1 2" t x 1 5 8" l x 3 4" d as point of