Great Looking Early Vintage German Toy Playpen brushes 7 3/4" d x 1

7 3/4" d x 1 5/8" tall

and because this is one of my very favorite shapes

1940s-50s salesman sample hinge very very Duchampian--a "readymade" for sure

who created similar graphic illustrations for Espirt

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Great Looking Early Vintage German Toy Playpen brushes 7 3/4" d x 1This miniature playpen has a kinship with those iconic Schoenhut circus chairs and pedestals I like so much quite similar in form and sensibility, and with a pretty circus y feel to the colorfully painted beads on wire at either side pen (a hard shelled papier mache I think.) And so, as good a stage platform for a lion or tiger as for a baby, I'd say but also sort of a cheerful minimalist piece of sculpture just as it is, too. With a cool sort of a