Wonderful Pair of c. 1900 Tin Spinning Toys, Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store, Baltimore british transferware Feels very 1960s-70s feminist awakening

Feels very 1960s-70s feminist awakening era to me

which looks likely like velvet

of eastern Burma/Myanmar

As long as one does not do much touching of them

rather than chips off--I'll never buy a set where the latter is the case

Wonderful Pair of c. 1900 Tin Spinning Toys, Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store, Baltimore british transferware Feels very 1960s-70s feminist awakeningI 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