Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green nude drawing The interior of the wooden

The interior of the wooden box is lined in birch bark as well

This one made me smile when I found it

and then this fantastically alligatored creamy white paint for the windows

For me there's a great stage set quality to it

Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green nude drawing The interior of the woodenAs sometimes happens, I had never found one of these old spinning toys until on a recent trip to Pennsylvania where I found a pair, one with intersecting rings like this (that one a bit longer than this), and one with a spinning bird. Then last week at a shop near Brimfield, this one! Hold it flag side down and the rings drop to that end, then turn it right side and they spin down, circling one another. Quite a joy. And feels an apt one to wave at