1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove skittles 5 1/2" wide x 3

5 1/2" wide x 3 3/8" tall

7 1/4" long x 1" wide x 3/4" deep

and set it on a shelf where I could admire it from a distance

I really love the roughness of this carved ball in cage whimsy

a wind instrument of which there are similarly an incredible array of beautiful examples

1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove skittles 5 1/2" wide x 3You can tell its flea market season when I start acquiring things like this, but how to resist the color and lines and great rusted surface? And I think it would make a pretty great pedestal for a few little things. It seems that the American toy company Louis Marx & Co. made this stove in a few different color schemes in the 1930s, some with an Little Orphan Annie sticker at the center of the top, others with a "Pretty Maid" sticker. Happily (in my