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Description
20" (51 cm.) w. x 13" x 11". The wide wooden store with angled sides has bronze green painted exterior and base, original wall paper with decorative ceiling border, original floor paper to simulate wood parquet design, and front columns decorated with pewter designs in the Art Nouveau style. The store interior features four identical chestnut cabinets of which two on the back wall center a wide display niche with a paneled door with decorative mirrors. The archway and cabinets have exuberant carved crests, and there is a faux-clock on the center crest. Each cabinet has six drawers with porcelain labels. There is a matching counter with unusual slant-top desk area, store scale, step ladder, and barrel. Excellent original condition throughout. Germany, circa 1890, Christian Hacker. The actual store is shown in Kohler's book, Christian Hacker, page 188, described as "Art Nouveau with pewter embellishments". Ex-The Boy's Collection.