Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car curated curiosities This little carved bone egg

This little carved bone egg

I just can't resist these fancy inlaid treen darning eggs when I come across them--so pretty

and studied fresco painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France

Known affectionately as the "happy wood carver" Copeland was renowned especially for his exceptional use of the grain of southern wood in his carving

Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car curated curiosities This little carved bone eggThis is just a little thing, but I love it so much, perhaps most of all the red star painted wheels. I am not completely sure what the metal pieces were salvaged from, but surely they had a life before becoming the sides of this little car or truck (?), nailed (with nice fat nails) to the sides of an old block of wood that forms the main body, and painted blue and red (much of which is clearly long gone.) Things like this make me very happy, just