Beautifully Faded Old Colorful Wooden Stacking Toy folk art key hanger Someone not long ago either

Someone not long ago either reframed it or replaced an old backing on the frame with a new piece of foam core

with this piercing dark blue eyes and straight line of a red mouth

I love how positively ancient it seems

but which seems to indicate a pleased and confident maker

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

Beautifully Faded Old Colorful Wooden Stacking Toy folk art key hanger Someone not long ago eitherIt'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