Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car carving of standing woman Ranavalo (former Queen of Madagascar)

Ranavalo (former Queen of Madagascar)

and who doesn't know someone who could use a little recognition of their merits

or did the story come after

and perhaps inspiration for some sort of party game

probably installed right below the clock’s face

Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car carving of standing woman Ranavalo (former Queen of Madagascar)This is just a little thing, but I love it so much, perhaps most of all the red star painted wheels. I am not completely sure what the metal pieces were salvaged from, but surely they had a life before becoming the sides of this little car or truck (?), nailed (with nice fat nails) to the sides of an old block of wood that forms the main body, and painted blue and red (much of which is clearly long gone.) Things like this make me very happy, just