1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove turtle shaped box and the little hand-painted windows

and the little hand-painted windows on the sides

and together with the form gives it a bit of an Asian feel

perhaps in school or at summer camp

and in excellent condition

they're precious

1930s Louis Marx Metal Toy Stove turtle shaped box and the little hand-painted windowsYou can tell its flea market season when I start acquiring things like this, but how to resist the color and lines and great rusted surface? And I think it would make a pretty great pedestal for a few little things. It seems that the American toy company Louis Marx & Co. made this stove in a few different color schemes in the 1930s, some with an Little Orphan Annie sticker at the center of the top, others with a "Pretty Maid" sticker. Happily (in my