Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger 1770s an object with a real

an object with a real presence

mounted to pale pink paper

5 3/16" long

discarding the curlicues in favor of more intensive mark-making and a more realistic depiction

I love the way it feels to hold--heavy and thick and very sturdy

Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger 1770s an object with a realSo many good old homemade toy guns out there, emblematic of a pre video game time when backyard play was alive and vivid. The sharp metal trigger on this one may suggest it was made less for play than for the sake of a carving a gun, maybe one of a series by the maker, but I'm not entirely sure. Whatever the case, it's got a certain elegance about it for sure, with the combination of wood grain and black paint and diagonal line of the trigger adding