Red Man, Yellow Cart, Sweet Old Folk Art Pull Toy art school studies though there is no printing

though there is no printing left on it--the box measures 8" x 6 3/4"x1 3/4"

What I really love about each

The wood is worn and aged

then a series of embossed and lightly inked vertically running lines

a term that was not introduced until late in the 1880s

Red Man, Yellow Cart, Sweet Old Folk Art Pull Toy art school studies though there is no printingI know this little pull toy came out of an estate in Rhode Island along with some other old handmade toys, but don't know more than that. There's a bit of Wilson Walkie Ramp Walker to those cloddish feet, but he's definitely his own thing, with hand painted big smiling face and funny little twig like arms, who stands on his yellow cart atop a long, sharp nail, which allows his to spin around. (Pulling the cart doesn't really make him spin but you can