1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove turtle shaped box and in excellent condition

and in excellent condition

but the yield is a landscape that feels like a whole world unto itself

with its dense pattern of cuts and wounds

they're precious

Jointed at the shoulders

1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove turtle shaped box and in excellent conditionYou 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