Tortoise

Details:

Medium: Enamel on tinplate clockwork toy

Dimensions: Approx. 12cm x 4cm x 8cm

He moves low and slow, and why not, when everywhere is home? A shell furnished with all the best things in life: crooked picket fences, flowers, a mansion, and snakes for the long grass.

Made in Germany, from approximately the 30's - 50's, in which just just 4 years shy of being antique. Perhaps I shouldn't have marked it up...