In this vintage photo, two children play with water and a tin lithographed pail. You can see Swee’Pea and Olive Oyl from Popeye The Sailor Man.
This is the vintage pail in color, along with some other vintage Popeye sand toys.
The photo was found in a 1956 magazine from Sweden, confirming that this was likely a European-made tin litho sand or water toy.