French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set gold box otherwise it is in great

otherwise it is in great vintage condition

I bought this complete set together and am selling them as a set

And it is heavy

plus a long pinkish wooden nose

perhaps once part of a set of fireplace tools

French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set gold box otherwise it is in greatI have a weakness for old figurative skittles or nine pins, and hard to beat a set of nine that includes both soldiers AND sailors! I'm not entirely sure if they were a combined set to begin with or came together at some later point, but I am pretty certain they are French, and 1940s at the latest. The outfits and colors are great, and I especially love the facial expressions, with eyes all looking in one direction, as if toward a rolling ball coming