Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger folk art sign 5 7/8" x 3 15/16"

5 7/8" x 3 15/16" and in very good condition

Carl Vinnen

There is some browning of the glaze at the very center of the interior of the bowl and around the rim

coming to the room of Ruth Sutton and Clara Fisk (both fantastically rendered

around places that still look very much like this

Elegant Homemade Toy Pistol with Sharp Metal Trigger folk art sign 5 7/8" x 3 15/16"So 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