C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) antique accounting At center is a wooden

At center is a wooden slat that divides it in half

The one at right shows a patent date of 1890

Lithography I believe (or possibly a linocut

perhaps in making use of a compass among other things

C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) antique accounting At center is a woodenYou 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