Pair of Early Gibbs Tin Litho Spinning Tops with Winder handmade miniature furniture and as if it endured

and as if it endured a bar fight or two

and great looking

10 3/4" l x 1 7/8" across at widest

and I realized it might be an extra beautiful slide whistle

a town in the Mexican state of Michoacan

Pair of Early Gibbs Tin Litho Spinning Tops with Winder handmade miniature furniture and as if it enduredA lovely pair of early Gibbs tin litho spinning tops; I pretty much never come across ones as nice as these, so optically satisfying with those bright stripes and yellow bottoms, and they are excellent spinners. They came with a wooden spring loading winder, which seems to click into place on top, but I haven't figured out how to make it work (there is a push button release but it seems to just stay in place, so I can't say for sure that it is in