1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove skittles and set it on a

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

I find it impossible to resist these old acrobat squeeze toys when the acrobats are as good as this guy

with a bit of very minor wear to the bottom corners along the edges

1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove skittles and set it on aYou 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