Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger 1770s mounted to pale pink paper

mounted to pale pink paper

an object with a real presence

Really a great object

There are irregularities original to its making

acid-colored banded glaze

Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger 1770s mounted to pale pink paperSo 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