Antique Painted Tin Toy, Galloping Horse and Cart antique reading book especially the dyed silk ground

especially the dyed silk ground

There is also a small loss to the top of one wing

couch almost included (the blue vested man

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there's quite a lonely feeling to that hand-painted sign propped up in the snow and  surrounded by fallen limbs

Antique Painted Tin Toy, Galloping Horse and Cart antique reading book especially the dyed silk groundI can't find an exact match of this one out there a variety of tin toy horses leading carts and sulkies and wagons were produced by different makers in the later 19th century, which I believe is when this one was made. I especially love the horse in original paint I believe, with nice details which truly appears as if in motion, its feet barely touching the ground as it gallops along. My guess is that the cart likely once had a cloth cover, giving