#316

Wonderful Early German Wooden Butcher Shop by Moritz Gottschalk
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12" (30 cm.) l. x 10"h. x 8"d. The wooden open-front and open-side butcher shop has painted green back wall with lithographed design to simulate tile,and lithographed parquet tile on the floor. There are built-in and free-standing counters and the shop is fitted with a wonderful selection of wooden accessories including a yellow barrel with original paper label of Herman Mayer,butcher block,other wooden containers,cutting boards and tools,a tin scale,a paper- mache butcher and a selection of paper-mache meats and poultry. Excellent condition. Germany,circa 1880,attributed to Moritz Gottschalck,an identical model appears in his firm's early catalogs.