C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) antique accounting walnut I think

walnut I think

I am not at all an expert on pre-Columbian pottery

At center is a wooden slat that divides it in half

There are others similar out there

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C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) antique accounting walnut I thinkYou need to wind a string around the base of this c. 1930s tin litho top to set it spinning (its original one, which would have come with it in a box, is long gone) but I think it's a beautiful thing whether one spins it or not. (And holding it by the handle, you can just manually spin it, like a pin wheel.) Made by Girard Model Works, an American toy manufacturing company established by Frank E. Wood in 1919 in Pennsylvania, which made some terrific