Antique Kangaroo Tin Penny Toy hand carved wooden tool but no metal-smithing background--so they

but no metal-smithing background--so they taught themselves

Quite a wonderful thing

I purchased it from a dealer who had purchased it

while the other features a couple of smaller cranes perched in a tree with branches that gracefully snake around the planter's perimeter

Great on a desk

Antique Kangaroo Tin Penny Toy hand carved wooden tool but no metal-smithing background--so theyI found a near exact match of this sweet old tin kangaroo that had been sold by an antique toy specialist online for $75. I love it, but that seems a little much, though I will take their description of it as a German penny toy dating to the 1910s 20s. There are a number of vintage tin kangaroo toys out there more recent, most which wind with a key and hop, which this one does not rather, it is unique in having curved fore legs, which allow it to rock