Wonderful Old Painted Wooden Folk Art Crocodile on Tin Wheels open and every inch filled

and every inch filled

and clever

complete with cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth

I think this is especially great hung on the wall with small nails in a few places at different heights so that it slinks across the wall a bit

but details do a slightly better job

Wonderful Old Painted Wooden Folk Art Crocodile on Tin Wheels open and every inch filledI've seen a few larger folk art pull toys (primarily dogs) made in this articulated manner, allowing the body to curve and snake, but I've never seen a crocodile, or one of this smaller (perfect!) scale. With a bit of a similar feel to those old Pennsylvania folk art turtle step stools I really love, and with a most excellent and perfectly aged paint job: sponged black paint animating the dark green, and yellow spots on top of that, plus eyes that