Beautiful Antique Treen Child’s Rattle fine lacquer and nice brass center pins

and nice brass center pins

Otherwise scattered stains and aging

complete with swords and daggers

weighty little object  that provokes

additional relief patterns up the sides and around the neck

Beautiful Antique Treen Child’s Rattle fine lacquer and nice brass center pinsIve coveted one of these for a long timecomprised of individually carved pieces, akin to a whimsy as well as to an interlocking wooden puzzle, but with the bonus of producing a great sound when shaken. (And it feels a bit like a magic wand, too!) Of the several of these Ive come across, each has been quite different, and I think the form of this one especially lovely, including for the ball shaped end at top. Others Ive seen are most often varnished,