Very Sweet Little Homade Toy Cart with Red Wheels and Many Nails antique German parquetry set but which now with quite

but which now with quite the amazing patina definitely reads as the face of a survivor

Not to everyone's taste

which makes me think perhaps it was a manuscript illustration—and how I would love to see that manuscript if so

I have no idea the story behind this carving

terminating in those wonderfully clunky little feet with incised toes

Very Sweet Little Homade Toy Cart with Red Wheels and Many Nails antique German parquetry set but which now with quiteI do sometimes think I was put on the planet to make sure things like this little toy cart don't get lost in the shuffle it's not even a choice; bringing them home feels like a requisite action. This one did require a little mending one of the axels was split, so I glued it back together, then nailed it back to the base. Definitely a bit wonky, and I wouldn't go crashing it into other cars, but the wheels will roll and it is holding together just