C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) contract strip Ink and watercolor on wove

Ink and watercolor on wove

circa 1960

shiny brown glaze on his belly and great reactive black glaze on his back

8 5/8" long x 1 3/16" wide and deep

applying her faux beauty mark or two

C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) contract strip Ink and watercolor on woveYou need to wind a string around the base of this c. 1930s tin litho top to set it spinning (its original one, which would have come with it in a box, is long gone) but I think it's a beautiful thing whether one spins it or not. (And holding it by the handle, you can just manually spin it, like a pin wheel.) Made by Girard Model Works, an American toy manufacturing company established by Frank E. Wood in 1919 in Pennsylvania, which made some terrific