Retro-Futuro Homemade Green and Silver Painted Wooden Toy Car vintage faux food The shiniest bits are at

The shiniest bits are at the centers of their bases

and clearly with a good bit of age to it--and of course grasshoppers as the luckiest insects of all

At some point someone added a wire on the back in order to hand this on the wall

sewn together from what looks to be white silk

The combo of old white

Retro-Futuro Homemade Green and Silver Painted Wooden Toy Car vintage faux food The shiniest bits are atI'm a sucker for a scratch made toy car, and love the streamlined aspirations of this silver and green painted one, which I have to imagine an adolescent boy imagined speeding along at 100 miles an hour, though those hand carved wooden wheels don't roll especially smoothly! Found near Lake George in Upstate NY, c. 1940 50s or so I would guess. 8 1 2 x 3 3 4 w x 1 1 4 t and in well loved condition, sturdy and sound. Probably there was once a steering