1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove skittles which I purchased online from

which I purchased online from a seller who did not know anything about it--I was just immediately taken with the evocativeness of the portrait

with a bit of very minor wear to the bottom corners along the edges

5 1/2" wide x 3 3/8" tall

a wind instrument of which there are similarly an incredible array of beautiful examples

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1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove skittles which I purchased online fromYou can tell its flea market season when I start acquiring things like this, but how to resist the color and lines and great rusted surface? And I think it would make a pretty great pedestal for a few little things. It seems that the American toy company Louis Marx & Co. made this stove in a few different color schemes in the 1930s, some with an Little Orphan Annie sticker at the center of the top, others with a "Pretty Maid" sticker. Happily (in my