Evocative Old Wooden Hat Form with Tape Helmet correspondance With wonderfully hand-painted white letters

With wonderfully hand-painted white letters popping against the black tank and equally perfect yellow carriage on trusty black wheels below

This I'd say is the very best handmade toy gun I've had in the shop

Blocks are in excellent condition

but great color still

but there's a red ribbon on top for hanging from the wall

Evocative Old Wooden Hat Form with Tape Helmet correspondance With wonderfully hand-painted white lettersThis just struck me as quite a beautiful thing, with the old tape giving her a helmet of sorts, or really perhaps more like a sort of bathing cap, and so, to my eye, making her feel quite animate. (And also like a woman who has worn many hats!) I believe the wooden form dates to the early 20th century, and I think has quite a lovely shape to it. Head sized: approx 10" t x 6 3 4" w x 7 1 2". Tape is very well attached, and all with quite a wonderful