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These are the sorts of things that I am incapable of walking away from--completely alive with the image of a child deeply absorbed in bringing imagined characters to life in order to physically enact war-time dramas at miniature scale

still in excellent condition but with a gorgeous patina

and the cutouts forming heart patterns at the center of the handle

Pair of Early Wooden Block Houses dolphin applied on the surface ofI found these two little block houses along with some more block buildings of the same ilk, but as those seemed fit for the center of town, and these for just outside of it, I'm listing them separately. They are old ones (one in this lot had a sticker note of 1890s on it and another 1930s, so sometime in that range), and I think surely came from a larger set of houses, but these are the two that survived. Approx 2 1 8" t x 2 3 8 w. Good condition,