Labors of Love: Wounded and Mended Large Old Erzgebirge Animal Fleet carved ball in cage whimsy Really a cool piece

Really a cool piece

and a vehicle for the use of lots of gold

and unglazed clay for the details

United States to David Warren Hill and Annie Pauline Goss

with ship in the distance appearing to ride the crest of a wave

Labors of Love: Wounded and Mended Large Old Erzgebirge Animal Fleet carved ball in cage whimsy Really a cool pieceWell, of course I had a bring these home with me! Some wonderful person before me (I think of them as a soulmate!) took each of these wounded Erzgebirge animals and gave them new life by gluing their feet to plinths and, for a few with two or more legs lost given them a peg leg to balance them out! I have to believe there is someone out there who will love these empathetic creatures as much as I do, so here they are, in all of their wounded glory to