C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) maine decoy 15 1/8" l x 7"

15 1/8" l x 7" t x 7 1/2" d

all painted yellow

with plenty of surface scratching to the paint making for what I'd call a great patina

with that excellent crown-like top poking out as a stopper--and so it invokes a nice presence/absence sort of dynamic

C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) maine decoy 15 1/8" l x 7"You 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