French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set antlers plus tracking the effort it

plus tracking the effort it takes for the mother to put dinner on the table

Edmund Squire

This lovely sculptural small vase is by the late master pottery John C

I especially love the man and woman at either end

there are some light scratches to the surface of the white frame

French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set antlers plus tracking the effort itI have a weakness for old figurative skittles or nine pins, and hard to beat a set of nine that includes both soldiers AND sailors! I'm not entirely sure if they were a combined set to begin with or came together at some later point, but I am pretty certain they are French, and 1940s at the latest. The outfits and colors are great, and I especially love the facial expressions, with eyes all looking in one direction, as if toward a rolling ball coming