Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs doll in carriage with a tiny red tongue

with a tiny red tongue hanging inside that mouth

I just can't resist these early transferware motto plates--kind of like Battersea boxes

What a special thing now to be the caretaker of

I purchased it from a bookseller in Grants Pass

Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs doll in carriage with a tiny red tongueAs 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