C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) contract strip circa 1960

circa 1960

Likely painted when Henrietta was just a school girl

7 1/4" x 6" and in very good condition

applying her faux beauty mark or two

C. 1930s Colorful Girard Tin Litho Top (No String) contract strip circa 1960You 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