Austrian Black Pottery Ocarina jungle jewelry is made of finely pierced

is made of finely pierced and painted hide parchment

I've really fallen in love with these old wooden Czechoslovakian "ramp walker" figures

The loom itself was made expressly to perform its function: two of the pieces of wood were notched to allow the other two to lock squarely on top of them

Attached to each is a round metal stamp to which a paper label reading "Original Teppich" is attached

but has plenty of years of use in it yet

Austrian Black Pottery Ocarina jungle jewelry is made of finely piercedI started encountering these great looking old clay ocarina (Italian for ''little goose'') at flea markets on occasion, and had to snatch one up; I think they are just great little objects, and pretty fun to play, too! They were made in various sizes; this is a smallish one, made in Vienna, Austria, earlyish 20th century I believe. It is a 10 hole Transverse, or "Sweet potato" style ocarina (eight finger holes on the face and two on the back), to be