Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) ferryboat and the angled top

and the angled top

and a hairline split extending from it

It folds up into an envelope

are about 3/4" of an inch raised

giving great life to the  trees of various sorts here

Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) ferryboat and the angled topI've been finding myself attracted of late to objects that are all about form and materiality, and which beg to be arranged in relationship to other objects that are all about the same; this is a prime example a bit of a mystery, at least to me, but a beautiful and satisfying thing. Hand carved of pine, which has a acquired a wonderful warm dry patina, it is weighted at the bottom, so definitely not a masher, but rather I think either a very old