Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) antique wood and glass bottle The board on the front

The board on the front is for Parcheesi

Found in Maine and I think a pretty old one

and seeming just the right complement to the grid of simple division math problems below

It looks to me that this ruler was made entirely from scratch

Just a little chair

Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) antique wood and glass bottle The board on the frontI'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