Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger 1853 new york circus which looks at first glance

which looks at first glance like an old fold line (to complement the one running diagonally at far right from the bottom

and it definitely provides a subtext

With nice age to it

) I find them both very full of life

Beautiful patina and presence

Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger 1853 new york circus which looks at first glanceSo many good old homemade toy guns out there, emblematic of a pre video game time when backyard play was alive and vivid. The sharp metal trigger on this one may suggest it was made less for play than for the sake of a carving a gun, maybe one of a series by the maker, but I'm not entirely sure. Whatever the case, it's got a certain elegance about it for sure, with the combination of wood grain and black paint and diagonal line of the trigger adding