Wonderful Pair of c. 1900 Tin Spinning Toys, Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store, Baltimore black men With little loops carved on

With little loops carved on either end

I find total joy in this--one of several pages I am listing all from the same late 19th c

) He may have been a pull toy

and certainly seems product of a great depression sensibility

Marvelous down to every detail-- those hats

Wonderful Pair of c. 1900 Tin Spinning Toys, Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store, Baltimore black men With little loops carved onI was so delighted to find these, and remain delighted every time I look at them and pick them up. They are tin spinning toys, sold by Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store in Baltimore (opened 1897) in its earliest days, c. 1900 I believe, with a flag at the top of the bird toy bearing the store's name and location. Hold them upside down by their twisted and looped wire handles and the rings and bird will fall (or spiral in the case of the bird) to