PLACE REPRESENTED:   Croatia

ITEM: Ornament

NOTES: I assume this is a sokol (falcon) which is the national bird of Croatia … or, if it isn’t, it should be. There are buildings, songs, poems, foods, folkloric groups and all sorts of other things named after it.

And, though not identified as croatian as such this was bought there, somewhere around Lovran or Rijeka I recall.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1973

MADE FROM: wood

MADE IN:  Yugoslavia (as it then was) (probably handmade)

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 21cm high , 15cm long