Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car curated curiosities as I have found a

as I have found a few other pieces--cabinets mostly--with very very similar marquetry patterning

Known affectionately as the "happy wood carver" Copeland was renowned especially for his exceptional use of the grain of southern wood in his carving

and studied fresco painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France

I think it's a pretty great one

There is one scratch to the surface on his left leg

Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car curated curiosities as I have found aThis is just a little thing, but I love it so much, perhaps most of all the red star painted wheels. I am not completely sure what the metal pieces were salvaged from, but surely they had a life before becoming the sides of this little car or truck (?), nailed (with nice fat nails) to the sides of an old block of wood that forms the main body, and painted blue and red (much of which is clearly long gone.) Things like this make me very happy, just