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Dymkovo toys with author/firm certification and gold leafs - $40 (Anchorage)
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1) Author Shabalina - Man with musical instrument Garmon' (Tula accordion)
2) Author Chetverikova - Mother and Father with twins.
3) Author Vorontsova - Woman with 2 water buckets
4) 2-headed horse in the form of pennywhistle.
The tradition of making pennywhistles in the form of a horse, a horserider, and a bird goes back to ancient time and has to do with the agricultural calendar holidays. Later on, little figures lost their spiritual meaning and became just toys for children, the making of which would become an artistic handicraft.
Old Russian folk Art Handcrafts.
Made in the village of Dymkovo near Kirov (former Vyatka)
Molded from a mixture of local potter's clay and river sand.
The parts of a toy are fastened together with watery clay. After the toys are dried and tempered in a furnace, they are whitewashed with chalk diluted in milk, then painted with tempera (before 1953, the artists used aniline paints ground with eggs) in 4 to 10 (or more) colors, and decorated with gold leafs 24 Karat.