Red Man, Yellow Cart, Sweet Old Folk Art Pull Toy art school studies This Mickey on bright yellow

This Mickey on bright yellow tractor is a happy merger of the two

is an ophthalmic instrument used to assess the shape of the anterior surface of the cornea: a series of concentric rings is projected onto the cornea and their reflection viewed by the examiner through a small hole in the centre of the disk

then a series of embossed and lightly inked vertically running lines

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

9 1/8" l x 6 1/2" d x 5 1/2" tall

Red Man, Yellow Cart, Sweet Old Folk Art Pull Toy art school studies This Mickey on bright yellowI 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