I found a new treasure to take home with me at the 26th annual Antiques in Long Valley show today – an 1890s German putz sheep. He had such a unique face, I couldn’t pass him up. It has more of a chalkware look than the typical composition face look.
Hi Stephanie –Val from Flickr here –I love this sheep! What a great find he is. Now I can see you making lots of little cousins for him –can’t wait to see!
Hi Val! So nice to have you visit here. I have been working on some free-standing spun cotton animals lately, so he just may have some little cousins soon.
🙂
Stephanie
Wow, excellent find! It’s a beauty :o)
Carol
Thanks, Carol!
Hi, I just bought a similar (more recent) sheep that looks like this. It’ stands 3-4 feet tall, is very heavy & solid (you can sit on it), made of solid wood and covered with [now worn-down] fleece. I got it for $55 at an antique market in northern Indiana, it just had the description “folkart”. I just ran across your picture and after some searching online, I see that these kind of sheep were made a lot–though usually very small, and people describe them as German Putz (but I havent found anything else about what that was) Can you tell me anything more about this trend/style of art? Just curious…we love our sheep and would like to know more about her!
Hi Hailey,
This sheep was my first purchase in the German putz genre as well – I don’t have any additional information about the style though, sorry about that. Perhaps I will find something at some point in the books in my library that I have yet to read.
~Stephanie