Roaring Yellow Lion, Great, Much Loved, Old Wooden Pull Along Toy log splitting cones but this is #4

but this is #4

This sketchbook was signed by Elton Silas Durkee (1871-1927

get married

which feels to me like quite a tender and true portrait

and room for a few fingers inside their opening to their heads

Roaring Yellow Lion, Great, Much Loved, Old Wooden Pull Along Toy log splitting cones but this is #4I'm not sure the maker of this old pull along toy lion I am sure not a one off, though it doesn't feel at all a far cry (or roar!) from folk art examples of the early 20th century. A boldly painted and terrifically graphic charmer in any case, and still rolling along, with a wooden tail (if a bit worse of the wear) that still raises and lowers. Great on a high shelf, guarding the room! 11 1 2" l x 6 1 4" w x 10 3 4" t. One piece of loss to mane on one