One of the best crib scenes we've seen in a while. Saw it in a local church. From the dress of some of the figures (particularly Joseph), I think it was made in the early thirties. One detail that I liked was that Joseph, the figure to the left (behind the goat) had a canvas bag of small carpentry tools at his feet- doesn't show in the photo though. Fairly standard Saturday - in workshop most of the morning, working on an eighteenth century timepiece alarm clock. Sandwich lunch, then scrabble club. Managed to fit four games and a tea break into our two hour session (though we overshot our two hours by about eight minutes). Of our table's four games, the four of us managed to win a game each. Several of us took in bags of left over Christmas goodies to hand round, so it turned into a tea party. Ann walked into town to meet me out of scrabble, and we visited the library on the way home to change our books. Must knock off now to try and get a bit more work done on the clock I was overhauling this morning. Bit more later perhaps.
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The faces are noticeably Baroness Lempika-esque, supporting your dating Mike. It is a beauty, although I'm concerned about the lantern being set down amid all that loose straw, a sloppy wet cow-pat would have been much safer despite the slight risk of methane ignition.
Very Art Deco, even the un-stable lantern.
The crib scene is my favourite part of Christmas. I must try to get my stable looking more authentic. Straw looks good
Hello Crowbard and Nea. It's a lovely crib scene even though Art Deco is not my favourite style. Just to give you an idea of the scale, the figures are about eighteen inches high.
Hello Pat. Yes, straw's a good start. Although I think that in most crib scenes hay would be better. More in proportion with the scene, and probably more suitable with New Testament Times.
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