Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green blonde it was hand-painted with a

it was hand-painted with a tea pot and pillow in red and other tea ceremony accoutrements in copper and silver — nothing extraneous

and I must say I love looking at the back almost as much as the front

the other three a bit squatter and squarer at the top

Great just to prop somewhere but easy to add a hanging hook to the back

Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green blonde it was hand-painted with aAs 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