Great Looking Early Vintage German Toy Playpen brushes ) Quite a sight

) Quite a sight

I've come across a few of these little barrel-shaped boxes and snatch them up whenever I can

) The Governor Robie was among the last of the sailing ships in the China trade

7 3/4" d x 1 5/8" tall

with I think one missing horizontal stick on the lower half

Great Looking Early Vintage German Toy Playpen brushes ) Quite a sightThis miniature playpen has a kinship with those iconic Schoenhut circus chairs and pedestals I like so much quite similar in form and sensibility, and with a pretty circus y feel to the colorfully painted beads on wire at either side pen (a hard shelled papier mache I think.) And so, as good a stage platform for a lion or tiger as for a baby, I'd say but also sort of a cheerful minimalist piece of sculpture just as it is, too. With a cool sort of a