Labors of Love: Wounded and Mended Large Old Erzgebirge Animal Fleet carved ball in cage whimsy both are so good

both are so good

or put to some other creative use

The more I look at it

on one side

with ship in the distance appearing to ride the crest of a wave

Labors of Love: Wounded and Mended Large Old Erzgebirge Animal Fleet carved ball in cage whimsy both are so goodWell, of course I had a bring these home with me! Some wonderful person before me (I think of them as a soulmate!) took each of these wounded Erzgebirge animals and gave them new life by gluing their feet to plinths and, for a few with two or more legs lost given them a peg leg to balance them out! I have to believe there is someone out there who will love these empathetic creatures as much as I do, so here they are, in all of their wounded glory to