(It is many times more beautiful in person
I immediately saw it as a marriage between Meret Oppenheim's fur lined tea cup and Rene Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe
Along the bottom edge is a signature
and interior "V"'s pointing to 25 point increments
I believe this was once either lidded or made to carry
The "Meccano Destroyer" Speeding Along, WW1 RPPC of Folk Art Diorama Stanlo (It is many times moreYou 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