New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate bottle vase so forgive the crummy pictures

so forgive the crummy pictures

listed for  $450-$800

also has a bit of the feeling of skin

The cones show some wear to their points

New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate bottle vase so forgive the crummy picturesI 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