Some cool toy animals images:
German 19th century Noah's Ark toys
Image by Community History SA
Displayed at Mill Cottage, built in 1866, Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. The toys belonged to the six Bishop children who lived in the house - Sidney b1869; Ethel b1871; William b1873; Amy b1876; Geoffrey b1887 and Myles b1890.
These two wooden arks are typical examples of flat bottomed, straw work arks, made in Germany in 19th century (usually the Erzgebirge region). The decoration is of fine veneer of multi coloured slivers of wood looking like straw. The carved wooden figures represent Noah, his wife and sons. The animals (originally many hundreds, in pairs like in the Bible story) were made by first turning a piece of wood to make a doughnut shape with the outside surface representing the animal. The 'doughnut' was then cut into sections to make many versions of that particular animal. They then had individual tails and ears etc added and painted.
These toys were designed to be played with only on Sundays (because of their Biblical theme) when the more religious families in the 19th century frowned on playing with toys or having fun on the Sabbath.
Dingo playing with toys.
Image by DigitalCanvas72
I was making noises to try and get her attention. She gave me a funny look lol.
wishful
Image by paloetic
submitted to scavenge challenge
June 2011
clue : #12 show us your stuffies! how cute a pose can you arrange for a stuffed animal?
