Puzzling Old Interlocking Whimsy Carving bamboo which looks to be Max

which looks to be Max Dorning NYC

Another Brimfield favorite---which the person who sold it to me had to take a picture of before parting with

a long and tall ball in cage feeling as much a modernist sculpture as a whimsy

with a spring that enables its beak (red on the inside

The structure itself is delicate but sturdy and completely in tact

Puzzling Old Interlocking Whimsy Carving bamboo which looks to be MaxI've been living with this one awhile so as to enjoy it and puzzle over it! before parting with it. My pondering was on whether it is actually composed of two tightly interlocking pieces of wood or was just incised on the surface to give that illusion but I've now learned that indeed this was a carpenter's trick, and so this a carpenter's whimsy. I love it as a very satisfying physical object (there is absolutely no wiggle between those two pieces;