C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) contract strip shiny brown glaze on his

shiny brown glaze on his belly and great reactive black glaze on his back

8 5/8" long x 1 3/16" wide and deep

Ink and watercolor on wove

Likely painted when Henrietta was just a school girl

applying her faux beauty mark or two

C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) contract strip shiny brown glaze on hisYou need to wind a string around the base of this c. 1930s tin litho top to set it spinning (its original one, which would have come with it in a box, is long gone) but I think it's a beautiful thing whether one spins it or not. (And holding it by the handle, you can just manually spin it, like a pin wheel.) Made by Girard Model Works, an American toy manufacturing company established by Frank E. Wood in 1919 in Pennsylvania, which made some terrific