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Description
25" x 10" x 9". A wooden-framed store with
plum-painted exterior walls and base has a fitted
interior with open cupboards on the angled side
walls,and a back wall that is fitted with sixteen
drawers,each with lithographed paper food or spice
labels,and centered by double-door cupboards with
oval glass windows atop a very large drawer whose
food label,curiously,is "zichorie" (chicory).
There is a matching counter,and the store is
wonderfully filled with food stuffs in rare
tins,paper,wooden case of glass milk
bottles,lithographed tin lunch bucket,case of
beer,and other rarities including painted tin
scale with brass trays,signed Kindler & Briel tin
newspaper cart,and Maerklin wheeled tin dolly. A
bisque head doll house lady stands in attendance.
Structurally excellent,there is some over-painting
of exterior,and cream/red of interior,contents are
excellent. Germany,circa 1910,attributed to
Christian Hacker,with many rare contents,the
actual store is shown in Kohler's Christian Hacker
book,page 172,described as "later version of the
'Copenhagen' shop".