Extra Large Painted Folk Art Spinning Top transfer ware child's cupBlind Mans Buff opening and closing smoothly

opening and closing smoothly

including its beautiful jar form

with rays of light lines all around it

the links are each about 1 7/8" long x 1 1/8" wide

a metallurgist in charge of the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory

Extra Large Painted Folk Art Spinning Top transfer ware child's cupBlind Mans Buff opening and closing smoothlyAt one point surely there was a string that wrapped around this which one would use to set it spinning, but I like it just as an object now, and rather a patriotic one, too, hand painted red white and blue. It's about as large a wooden top as Ive seen, with a satisfying form and metal disks at either end, meaning it could be wound and spun on either end. Id guess 1940s or so. 6 1 4 l x 3 1 4 d and in good condition.