Lot of Colorfully Painted, Simple Homemade Wooden Houses wire hands such that they remain forever

such that they remain forever at the center of their cages as opposed to bouncing around

I believe likely from an opposite page in the scrapbook where it was long housed

and around the perimeter of the lid for Chrysanthemums and pearls

which does not prevent him from standing steady on his own

(Total weight a little less than 1

Lot of Colorfully Painted, Simple Homemade Wooden Houses wire hands such that they remain foreverThese aren't antique I'd guess mid 20th c or so but they are pretty terrific, and great fun to arrange and photograph, hence lots of pictures. Great paint schemes, sweet little windows and details painted on a handful of them, and altogether a very happy lot. It seems they were once glued down onto a ground of sorts, I presume arranged to create a whole town I've scraped much of the residue off the bottoms, but a little remains here and there. Strange