Old Hand-carved Folk Art (Sailor Made?) Chair with Interlocking Corners and Secret Rattles Inside wooden owl but also humble

but also humble

not too big

with some toning around the edges of the board

10 1/16" in diameter

Spinners or markers from some sort of game

Old Hand-carved Folk Art (Sailor Made?) Chair with Interlocking Corners and Secret Rattles Inside wooden owl but also humbleAn unusual one, of substantial scale, and delivering a surprise, which is also a bit of a mystery: to jiggle it is to discover that it is rattle but where is the rattling coming from??? ( I think it must be that concealed inside each of those crown of thorns type joints is a small wooden ball or something, because it rattles all over, but nothing visible is moving!) I love that concealment, and the playfulness it lends to this rather formidable