Super Sweet Set of Handmade Wooden Houses c. 1940s enamel jewelry Marked Thos Godwin Burslem Stone

Marked Thos Godwin Burslem Stone China on the underside

with a little surface cracking to the wood right down the center of the MEAT

Oilcloth (also known as American cloth) was traditionally made through a fairly labor-intensive process of treating close-woven cotton or linen cloth (I believe this is linen) with a coating of boiled linseed oil to make it waterproof

and the two hinges on the back

and an original Nickel Plate Road logo sticker on the opposite side

Super Sweet Set of Handmade Wooden Houses c. 1940s enamel jewelry Marked Thos Godwin Burslem StonePure joy. I'm forever looking for little painted wooden houses like these (like next generation American folk art versions of early German Erzgebirge villages) but pretty much never find them, and what could be better than the color combinations here? With carefully cutout wooden doors nailed to their fronts, and hand painted paned windows on each and every one too. Satisfying like a great set of old homemade painted building blocks, but even better,