Beautiful Antique Treen Child’s Rattle fine lacquer in one of many boxes

in one of many boxes of old tools and odds and ends

weighty little object  that provokes

complete with swords and daggers

additional relief patterns up the sides and around the neck

I believe this is likely German and dates to the 1920s or so

Beautiful Antique Treen Child’s Rattle fine lacquer in one of many boxesIve coveted one of these for a long timecomprised of individually carved pieces, akin to a whimsy as well as to an interlocking wooden puzzle, but with the bonus of producing a great sound when shaken. (And it feels a bit like a magic wand, too!) Of the several of these Ive come across, each has been quite different, and I think the form of this one especially lovely, including for the ball shaped end at top. Others Ive seen are most often varnished,