Mississippi toy boat. USA, 1890.

Mississippi toy boat. USA, 1890.
Painted iron.
Exhibits wear consistent with age and use.
Measurements: 13 x 37 x 8,5 cm.

Toy boat manufactured in the United States in the late nineteenth century. It reproduces to scale a model of a boat that sailed the Mississippi River during the nineteenth century through the route that linked the most emblematic cities, in Lake Itasca in Minnesota, to its mouth in New Orleans.