19th C. Althoph Bergmann Camel and Rider Tin Toy folk art christ and to my eye is

and to my eye is just a beautiful thing

though perhaps a bee

It measures 7 5/8" in diameter and 2 3/4" tall

but I think this interesting old handmade dial would be instructive if a novice like me were to try to put it to use

19th C. Althoph Bergmann Camel and Rider Tin Toy folk art christ and to my eye isI am pretty certain this camel once stood on a base with wheels so that it could roll along, but it appears to have lost its ride a long time ago! I am 99% sure if was made by Althoph, Bergmann & Co, an early American tin toy maker based in NYC, and believe it dates to the 1880s or so. A string knotted around one leg of the camel helps to holds the two halves of it together (the seam is still joined along the top of the head and hump, but not the