Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger folk art sign just stuffed into an envelope

just stuffed into an envelope she had lying around

And the back on this I think is just about as beautiful as the front

) than an hourglass

around places that still look very much like this

Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger folk art sign just stuffed into an envelopeSo 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