Beautiful Antique Handmade Tin Dipper acrobat toy On one side are numerical

On one side are numerical numbers

I presume losing the lower half of one leg along the way

" I have to think with 100+ years on him

as the manner and decoration reminds me very much of antique Japanese wooden nesting eggs and horse racing games inside treen boxes I've found on a few occasions

I find these so beautiful

Beautiful Antique Handmade Tin Dipper acrobat toy On one side are numericalA very tender and poetic feeling antique tin dipper, which I believe would have been used for scooping water, and likely as a drinking cup too, and may have been used as a ladle of sorts for most everything else as well. I find the irregular handmade form of it very lovely, with folded over tin around the lip and at the edges of handle, and then best of all that arch of wire at the end of the handle for hanging. 9 7 8" l. Bowl is 2 7 8" in diameter x