Old Tin Spinning Top with Excellent Hand-Painted Color old handmade house About half full

About half full

and have been hunting for more ever since

which I have not touched

There are a couple of minor scrapes/dings to the black frame

Old Tin Spinning Top with Excellent Hand-Painted Color old handmade house About half fullI'm a sucker for old spinning tops for me as much a vehicle for great color as anything else and this appears an early one, with hand painted rather than lithographed color. I haven't had much luck getting it spinning but haven't tried very hard there are push starters that will fit over the stem of ones like this, though an expert flick of the wrist on a flat surface might do just as well. Personally, I'm very content just to set it somewhere to look