Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) ferryboat There is old repair of

There is old repair of a split at one hand

Quite a cast of characters (caricatures) and situations represented --my favorite being a man with pointy beard holding "bettrave triumphant" (triumphant beet

giving great life to the  trees of various sorts here

The makers also did a pretty great job with the composition

and a hairline split extending from it

Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) ferryboat There is old repair ofI'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