White Painted Old Make Do Wooden Car with Can Lid Wheels carved wood foot I've found a very close

I've found a very close match of this lovely small lacquer string holder that describes it (with some authority) as English Victorian-era Chinoiserie

This is the smaller of two lovely Burmese bamboo lacquer betel boxes currently in the shop

via jumping them

Just a sweet little wooden dog pin

were designed by Dr

White Painted Old Make Do Wooden Car with Can Lid Wheels carved wood foot I've found a very closeThis thing is old, dirty and dinged up, but for me it brings the form of modernist sculpture to pure make do construction. The wheels are metal can lids and they wobble a bit, but they do roll. Simple as can be but pure resourcefulness and to my eye really great. 18 1 8" l x 4 3 4" t x 2 1 2" w.