Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) European hand-drawn map the darker brown was surely

the darker brown was surely once black

but I'm pretty partial to this red cat just as it is

) I believe this one is mahogany

11 3/4" long x 2 1/4" w x 3/8" d

" This became his philosophy when he turned to his youthful hobby of whittling upon his retirement in 1967 from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) European hand-drawn map the darker brown was surelyI've been finding myself attracted of late to objects that are all about form and materiality, and which beg to be arranged in relationship to other objects that are all about the same; this is a prime example a bit of a mystery, at least to me, but a beautiful and satisfying thing. Hand carved of pine, which has a acquired a wonderful warm dry patina, it is weighted at the bottom, so definitely not a masher, but rather I think either a very old