Posted 12 years ago
austrohung…
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Once more I am bringng you some of the items I grew up with: the amazing naughty friar and naughty nun salt & pepper shakers!
They were some of the top seller souvenirs in the Spain of the 1960s and 1970s, or at least I remember seeing them all over Spain when I was a kid. I also remember our neighbours downstairs had their own set, but their nun wore dark habits... which means I like ours the best.
I quite liked these and even if i didn't play with them, I guess that at some point I wished I had my own monastry of naughty shakers, all with different habits and probablu more monks than nuns...
I have seen simmilar friar shakers being made in Germany... so thee's always the doubt about who made them first. In any case, so far I haven't seen nun shakers so that gives Spain one point.
They are cheeky! Pottery?
Not sure... the nun has got a chip on the top of her head and it is white in the inside... plaster??? :/ or maybe a kind of white clay
WOW! You don't see the Nun very often! Great find.
So cute! Precioso set austro.
fun!!!!!
Muchas gracias Virginia!
I love the way you've placed them, each one taking a sneaky peep at the other!
thnks SEAN and SKLO! Well, that's the way they were always placed at my mother's souvenirs cabinet... ;)