Wonderful Pair of c. 1900 Tin Spinning Toys, Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store, Baltimore british transferware but with a full head

but with a full head of hair

and so contemporary feeling in many of the messages they bear--but I've never quite settled on one until finding this one near Albany this week that seemed just right to--and maybe for

of what I believe is a painting of this horse

All in beautifully aged

she would really sing

Wonderful Pair of c. 1900 Tin Spinning Toys, Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store, Baltimore british transferware but with a full headI 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