Old Tin Spinning Top with Excellent Hand-Painted Color Navajo turquoise pin hands and feet/legs up to

hands and feet/legs up to the knees are all super sensitively hand-carved and painted

a pretty great portrait

and the contrast between his serious expression and the bright eyed

shuttlecock

The print measures 10" x 10"

Old Tin Spinning Top with Excellent Hand-Painted Color Navajo turquoise pin hands and feet/legs up toI'm a sucker for old spinning tops for me as much a vehicle for great color as anything else and this appears an early one, with hand painted rather than lithographed color. I haven't had much luck getting it spinning but haven't tried very hard there are push starters that will fit over the stem of ones like this, though an expert flick of the wrist on a flat surface might do just as well. Personally, I'm very content just to set it somewhere to look