1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove turtle shaped box with its dense pattern of

with its dense pattern of cuts and wounds

and the little hand-painted windows on the sides

I might think this great wooden folk art chicken was the work of well-known Georgia folk artist RA Miller (1912 –2006)--the silhouette and use of line is very similar

and a fun one to wave around

so I'm not really sure

1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove turtle shaped box with its dense pattern ofYou 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