Antique Painted Tin Toy, Galloping Horse and Cart antique reading book especially the dyed silk ground

especially the dyed silk ground

reading rather like an adobe house built into an anthropomorphic mountain with a protective arm extended out front carving out a private terrace

there's quite a lonely feeling to that hand-painted sign propped up in the snow and  surrounded by fallen limbs

with great creamy white paint worn away at corners and along sides

though I think I prefer him empty handed

Antique Painted Tin Toy, Galloping Horse and Cart antique reading book especially the dyed silk groundI can't find an exact match of this one out there a variety of tin toy horses leading carts and sulkies and wagons were produced by different makers in the later 19th century, which I believe is when this one was made. I especially love the horse in original paint I believe, with nice details which truly appears as if in motion, its feet barely touching the ground as it gallops along. My guess is that the cart likely once had a cloth cover, giving