Wonderful Old Painted Wooden Folk Art Crocodile on Tin Wheels open complete with cigarette hanging out

complete with cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth

but details do a slightly better job

and clever

which stamped the insides of the covers--so we can't know for sure on this one

Wonderful Old Painted Wooden Folk Art Crocodile on Tin Wheels open complete with cigarette hanging outI've seen a few larger folk art pull toys (primarily dogs) made in this articulated manner, allowing the body to curve and snake, but I've never seen a crocodile, or one of this smaller (perfect!) scale. With a bit of a similar feel to those old Pennsylvania folk art turtle step stools I really love, and with a most excellent and perfectly aged paint job: sponged black paint animating the dark green, and yellow spots on top of that, plus eyes that