The "Meccano Destroyer" Speeding Along, WW1 RPPC of Folk Art Diorama native american black clay pottery but I think this just

but I think this just adds to its aura

which is both gorgeous and unusual

because they're so great looking--and of a nice small scale to collect

making it feel like a bit of a Frankenstein

This could be my very favorite old wooden cutout doorstop ever

The "Meccano Destroyer" Speeding Along, WW1 RPPC of Folk Art Diorama native american black clay pottery but I think this justYou may be better at deciphering the long note written in very small print on the back of this real photo postcard than I, but I can decipher the date of October, 8, 1917, and the location, Seacroft. And I can make out that the diorama captured by the photographer was the creation of the child, showing the Meccano Destroyer off to "pick the huns" with huns, I believe, slang for Germans. Of course me its all about the diorama, with wonderfully folky