White Painted Old Make Do Wooden Car with Can Lid Wheels carved wood foot Just a sweet little wooden

Just a sweet little wooden dog pin

Both feature wood-burned decorative garlands and the text "Minne från Sverige" (souvenirs from Sweden) across their top rims

before they are worn out

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

White Painted Old Make Do Wooden Car with Can Lid Wheels carved wood foot Just a sweet little woodenThis 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.