Wonderful Pair of c. 1900 Tin Spinning Toys, Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store, Baltimore antique american primitive stool I love a Merganser

I love a Merganser

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Earlyish 19th century New England I believe

Wonderful Pair of c. 1900 Tin Spinning Toys, Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store, Baltimore antique american primitive stool I love a MerganserI was so delighted to find these, and remain delighted every time I look at them and pick them up. They are tin spinning toys, sold by Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Department Store in Baltimore (opened 1897) in its earliest days, c. 1900 I believe, with a flag at the top of the bird toy bearing the store's name and location. Hold them upside down by their twisted and looped wire handles and the rings and bird will fall (or spiral in the case of the bird) to