Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels clever drawings 10" wide x 10" deep

10" wide x 10" deep x 8 7/8" tall

complete deck of 32  Piatnik & Söhne “Sehr Feine Aufschlagkarten” fortune telling cards

which I think may be British

but in fact these men on horseback are playing "Chaugan

Isobel Field

Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels clever drawings 10" wide x 10" deepI found this one at Brimfield in the booth of a delightful seller who always has charming things; it was filled end to end with a bunch of old children's books, but happily she was willing to relocate those into a big pile and let me steal the shelf away, as I'm pretty smitten with these squirrels! Made with lots of love I'd bet by a parent or grandparent as a gift for a young child in the 1940s or 50s, with mellow gold paint on the exterior of the