Antique Black Forest wooden tray beautiful carved

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BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE BLACK FOREST WOODEN SERVING TRAY. AGE : ABOUT 1900 CONDITION : VERY GOOD LENGTH : 9,6 INCH.( 24,5 CM.) GOOD LUCK WITH BIDDING! About Black Forest cravings For many years "Black Forest" carvings were thought to have been produced in the Bavarian Black Forest, in Germany, but it has now been established beyond all doubt that they were the sole province of the Swiss. The wood carving industry of Switzerland originated in the picturesque town of Brienz. From humble beginnings as a cottage industry in the early 1800s it grew by the turn of the twentieth century to become the industrial driving force of a whole community. By 1910 t were some thirteen hundred carvers plying their trade in the locality of Brienz. The carving industry was driven by the tourist industry; Brienz, Luzern, Interlaken and other such picturesque resorts were in vogue with the wealthy Victorians. Bears were particularly popular, being the symbol for the city of Berne, but musical boxes, musical chalets, furniture large and small, all figured in Swiss carving. The variety was immense, ranging from the religious, faithful reproductions of Leonardo da Vincis Last Supper to the amusing and whimsical. Swiss "Black Forest" carvings were exhibited at the London Great Exhibition of 1851, Chicago 1893, Paris 1900 and at many of the other great international read more

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