Hand-painted Antique Wooden Souvenir from Skansen, Stockholm, 1898 puppet show beautifully exemplified in this frog

beautifully exemplified in this frog

With its graceful form and gorgeous hand-painted surface treatment

they can be worn as simple silver diamond shapes

There are a fair number of Mexican frog pitchers out there

decor and housewares as well as modern and historic objects acquired from travels around the world

Hand-painted Antique Wooden Souvenir from Skansen, Stockholm, 1898 puppet show beautifully exemplified in this frogI vividly remember visiting Skansenan open air museum and zoo in Stockholm dedicated to showing the traditional Swedish way of life prior to industrializationon a cold and rainy day fall day several years ago, largely for the purpose of visiting their wonderful gift shop, where I loaded up on quintessentially Swedish gifts to bring home to friends and family. It thus felt rather serendipitous to find this Skansen souvenir (minne, in Swedish, which