Early Tin Toy Rocking Kangaroo fun jewelry I'd guess they are meant

I'd guess they are meant to be cats or tigers (with the natural grain of the shells giving them black stripes)

How much nicer to reference this sweet old perpetual calendar with lovingly hand-written inserts than to check the calendar on one's phone

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Just the perfect amount of non-linearity to that door and those windows and chimneys

Early Tin Toy Rocking Kangaroo fun jewelry I'd guess they are meantI believe this tin toy kangaroo dates to the 1910s 20s and is likely German, distinguished from later versions by its curved legs among other things, allowing it rock foreword and back. I've rarely met a kangaroo I didn't like such curious animals! and think this is quite a sweet, as well as pretty rare, one. 6 1 2" l x 2 3 4" t with head up, 1 7 8" wide including pins, which hold the legs in place. This kangaroo doesn't hop along in its own (!) but