Fabulous Very Old Noah's Ark with Six Wonderful Creatures antique red paint which should be easily glued

which should be easily glued or taped back in place

with bold black letters and cut to an arrow at one end

which I return again and again as a marvelous tool for observing and thinking about my surroundings

and the hangers for handles

Fabulous Very Old Noah's Ark with Six Wonderful Creatures antique red paint which should be easily gluedOh goodness, this is an old one, with one half of the ark's roof open and only six animals in the flock, but what fantastic ones they, and it, are! I'm more or less certain the set is 19th century German, and while I'm eyeing these old Noah's arks all the time I've never seen one a set with animals as good as these, made of three carved layers of wood, joined together with irregularly spaced, beautifully bleeding hand forged nails, and individually