Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car curated curiosities I think it's a pretty

I think it's a pretty great one

Signed (incised) "Allie" on the underside

These are heavy

as I have found a few other pieces--cabinets mostly--with very very similar marquetry patterning

This little carved bone egg

Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car curated curiosities I think it's a prettyThis is just a little thing, but I love it so much, perhaps most of all the red star painted wheels. I am not completely sure what the metal pieces were salvaged from, but surely they had a life before becoming the sides of this little car or truck (?), nailed (with nice fat nails) to the sides of an old block of wood that forms the main body, and painted blue and red (much of which is clearly long gone.) Things like this make me very happy, just