Antique German Wooden Jack Staws in Original Box lettering and he is great fun

and he is great fun to animate

as if emerging from a long journey at sea

I especially love the painterly explosion of flowers at near right

There are some wonderful ones out there

a mother and child

Antique German Wooden Jack Staws in Original Box lettering and he is great funThis old German set of wooden jack straws, early 20th c. I believe, is a great set to actually play with, with both of its original wood and wire hooks for picking up the pieces still in the box. Apart from the simple straight "sticks", all of the pieces show printed numbers on one side, indicating point values for successfully extracting them should one wish to keep score. Near complete if not entirely, with a nice variety of tool like forms