Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car carving of standing woman are stained four different shades

are stained four different shades to my count

or did the story come after

one for 15 and two for three

with light stains and smudges

This is a beautiful antique hardwood portable ink bottle

Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car carving of standing woman are stained four different shadesThis 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