Two Marvelous Old Painted Wooden Folk Art Stacking Toys lidded copper box which is essentially the same

which is essentially the same as pick-up sticks)

though I think there are a few small scratches here and there

Great now as a doorstop or holding down a shelf--or set him up in the backyard and pull out a BB gun

Bone had a great line and terrific sense of humor--which this pen and ink drawing animating a Victorian wicker reclining chair cut from an old catalog wonderfully exemplifies

but is taller than that

Two Marvelous Old Painted Wooden Folk Art Stacking Toys lidded copper box which is essentially the samePure joy to find these two this weekend; I love a stacking toy, and more so an old handmade one, better yet a pair, and better still one of them which is really quite ingenious in its construction and the manual dexterity challenges it presents (as well as the creative possibilities for configuration it allows)! It's the one on the right that is the unusual one, with a series of staggered cross bars on the post with correspondingly shaped cutouts at