Excellent Old Silver Painted Carved Toy Pistol with (Partial) Leather Holster antique palette and physicist

and physicist

novels a la Jane Austen

Scratched by hand into the back of the sign is "March 1914

to the wrapped arms

I find these owls pretty empathetic creatures--kind of homely

Excellent Old Silver Painted Carved Toy Pistol with (Partial) Leather Holster antique palette and physicistA beauty of an old carved wooden toy pistol, quite iconic looking in its silver paint, and clearly invested with significant care by a kid long ago, who I'd like to imagine used it only for good. With excellent carved detailing, especially the dense crosshatching on the handle, and a heavy wire trigger, two nails at top for the sights, and an old leather sleeve, with button sewn inside, which I presume once attached to a belt or strap. Gun, in very