The "Meccano Destroyer" Speeding Along, WW1 RPPC of Folk Art Diorama native american black clay pottery It looks like maybe a

It looks like maybe a touch up to the white paint just on his rear paws at some point

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

with what looks like a steam powered mail box flapping its wings as it takes off from an elevated platform

but I think this just adds to its aura

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 It looks like maybe aYou 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