New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate bottle vase And quite a delightful elegance

And quite a delightful elegance to the construction of the whole thing too

a little wider at one end than the other and narrower at the middle as the weave compacted

also has a bit of the feeling of skin

and would press against the board as the chalk did its work drawing the lines

Plenty of wear to exterior and spine

New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate bottle vase And quite a delightful eleganceI love this thing, which I take for an old handmade wooden "fidget" toy of sorts: turn the red painted handle at center, and the five wooden disks rotate, individually and each turning the next so they all circle around the ring like cogs in a wheel. Sometimes they move together well, and sometimes not quite so smoothly, which lends some excitement to the operation one wants to turn the handle just right. I know this was found in an old barn in