Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs doll in carriage Day on the first yellow

Day on the first yellow bead

Overall very good condition and really great

Setting it somewhere now feels like inserting the presence of an all seeing eye or acknowledging the contemporary omnipresence of surveillance but in a wonderfully anachronistic way

I purchased it from a bookseller in Grants Pass

with a tiny red tongue hanging inside that mouth

Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs doll in carriage Day on the first yellowAs I've noted elsewhere (because I'm proud of myself for doing it!), I spent several days over the holidays weeding through old boxes of stuff, almost all of which I dropped to Goodwill or boxed back up for the flea market next summer. But these I couldn't put away, they're too satisfying, and I could spend half the day just opening and closing and them, with the double hinged design making that feel a bit like a Rube Goldberg ian sort of event! The