Labors of Love: Wounded and Mended Large Old Erzgebirge Animal Fleet carved ball in cage whimsy United States to David Warren

United States to David Warren Hill and Annie Pauline Goss

and unglazed clay for the details

” Jones carved animals and figures from tree branches while out hunting in the woods of West Virginia

and a vehicle for the use of lots of gold

Really a cool piece

Labors of Love: Wounded and Mended Large Old Erzgebirge Animal Fleet carved ball in cage whimsy United States to David WarrenWell, 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