Fred Lant's 1898 Hand-carved Folk Art Clock Dial steel lock taking their different colors from

taking their different colors from a wide variety of cigarette brands

I think the color on these--yellow on one side and red on the other

I'll never get over the charm of these old German "Erzgebirge" wooden villages

it appears to be quite an old one

Perfect in black and creamy white

Fred Lant's 1898 Hand-carved Folk Art Clock Dial steel lock taking their different colors fromI've always got an eye out for folk art clock dials like this, which I believe would have been used for teaching learning how to read time on a clock. I love the simple earnestness of this one, and that it is shaped like the silhouette of a house, and especially those cut tin hands of the dial, the elongated form of which I think lends a certain elegance and grace to the whole thing. The roman numerals of the dial appear to have been incised then