Beautifully Faded Old Colorful Wooden Stacking Toy folk art key hanger starting a family and working

starting a family and working odd jobs as a mechanic and hotel cook before embarking on a second far-flung career as a merchant mariner

with fabric covered buttons and pockets on both blazer and cuffed pants

I think these are really cool--great looking

but which seems to indicate a pleased and confident maker

later 20th century I believe

Beautifully Faded Old Colorful Wooden Stacking Toy folk art key hanger starting a family and workingIt's been a while since I found an old stacking toy that excited me, but this one did, and does, like a colorful modernist tower found the other day at a little antique shop in Rhode Island. I've always got an eye out for thinly sliced ones like this, but I've not come across another quite like it and am not sure the maker; there is no mark anywhere on it as far as I can see. It has a lot of years on it, with what I find beautiful softening to the