Beautifully Faded Old Colorful Wooden Stacking Toy 19th century engraved book I really love the roughness

I really love the roughness of this carved ball in cage whimsy

and especially to announce one would like not to be disturbed

some surface wear and a little varnish loss

I’d hang these vintage Japanese fans on the wall immediately to enjoy them as the gorgeous objects that they are all winter long—and to be reminded that summer will come again

and definitely happiness inducing

Beautifully Faded Old Colorful Wooden Stacking Toy 19th century engraved book I really love the roughnessIt's been a while since I found an old stacking toy that excited me, but this one did, and does, like a colorful modernist tower found the other day at a little antique shop in Rhode Island. I've always got an eye out for thinly sliced ones like this, but I've not come across another quite like it and am not sure the maker; there is no mark anywhere on it as far as I can see. It has a lot of years on it, with what I find beautiful softening to the