SOLD Fabulous Vintage French Folk Art Butcher Shop Diorama saw and screw Originally a Halloween noisemaker

Originally a Halloween noisemaker

19 7/8” measured tip to tip

with a definite feeling of liberation about it

Photos document a selection of representative pages but it would be exhaustive to show them all

very sturdy and completely sound

SOLD Fabulous Vintage French Folk Art Butcher Shop Diorama saw and screw Originally a Halloween noisemakerI didn't realize French butcher shop dioramas were such a thing prior to finding this one the other day, but indeed there is a long history of them; a quick search turns up a number of quite extraordinary 19th century examples. This from Christie's: "Model butcher shops were probably made to fulfill an educational role, designed to be studied rather than played with as toys, as the cuts of meat and types of carcasses are rendered with some accuracy."