Excellent Old Silver Painted Carved Toy Pistol with (Partial) Leather Holster test cracks or other issues

cracks or other issues

from what I can make out

Another one found in Maine this week and I would bet painted en plein air on the coast somewhere between Maine and Massachusetts

and anything that requires decoding--and the symbols interspersed here are pure delight

Excellent Old Silver Painted Carved Toy Pistol with (Partial) Leather Holster test cracks or other issuesA beauty of an old carved wooden toy pistol, quite iconic looking in its silver paint, and clearly invested with significant care by a kid long ago, who I'd like to imagine used it only for good. With excellent carved detailing, especially the dense crosshatching on the handle, and a heavy wire trigger, two nails at top for the sights, and an old leather sleeve, with button sewn inside, which I presume once attached to a belt or strap. Gun, in very