Merkelbach & Wick Pottery stoneware headless Owl

July 2025. Mystery solved it is by Merkelbach & Wick.

https://www.beerstein.net/item.asp?ItemNum=maw-f26

The firm of Merkelbach & Wick was founded in 1872 in the town of Grenzhausen in the Westerwald by Friedrich Wilhelm Merkelbach II and Georg Peter Wick. They produced beer steins and other ceramic products under that name until 1921 when the heirs of the founders went their separate ways. At that point the firm was converted to a joint stock company operating under the name Wick-Werke AG, which remained in business until 1984.

Purchased 6/2025 from blue springs DaV thrift store for 8$. Ive always appreciated Martin Bros Pottery from a distance. This has good
potential of being a headless wally bird. What do you think?

It is marked WM with a g underneath

Also it has the number 358 enigmatically marked on its back center
8.74 inches tall 4 inches across at base.