New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate cloudy sky with that paper label feeling

with that paper label feeling close kin to Milton Bradley labels on kindergarten blocks from around that time

orange and blue paint to my eye is just perfect

Methinks this young man was

reminiscent of the iconic 17th c

New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate cloudy sky with that paper label feelingI love this thing, which I take for an old handmade wooden "fidget" toy of sorts: turn the red painted handle at center, and the five wooden disks rotate, individually and each turning the next so they all circle around the ring like cogs in a wheel. Sometimes they move together well, and sometimes not quite so smoothly, which lends some excitement to the operation one wants to turn the handle just right. I know this was found in an old barn in