Fabulous 1930s Japanese Turn Handle Mechanical Mice Toy, Perfect Working Condition beech Wool yarn on linen

Wool yarn on linen

) but the rest are in good shape minus their missing limbs

)  Perhaps a metaphor for a specific political moment

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something about the minimalism of it

Fabulous 1930s Japanese Turn Handle Mechanical Mice Toy, Perfect Working Condition beech Wool yarn on linenPure fun and great delight. Turn the wire handle on the side of the glass fronted box to watch all the celluloid mice run around in circles two of them spinning on the turntable, one running forever to nowhere in the wheel at top, and the fourth climbing the wall ramp at far right (a straight 90 degrees vertical) only to disappear over the top and then reemerge through the paper flap at the bottom. I should have made a video but was not coordinated