French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set bird in cage There are some very fancy

There are some very fancy little antique shoe-shaped snuff boxes out there with all sorts of inlays and flourishes

and there is one broken rung in the ladder

just inside the edge of the tile

A little research reveals that Right Time made a few different hammer toys

French Soldiers and Sailors Painted Wooden Skittle Set bird in cage There are some very fancyI have a weakness for old figurative skittles or nine pins, and hard to beat a set of nine that includes both soldiers AND sailors! I'm not entirely sure if they were a combined set to begin with or came together at some later point, but I am pretty certain they are French, and 1940s at the latest. The outfits and colors are great, and I especially love the facial expressions, with eyes all looking in one direction, as if toward a rolling ball coming