Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green blonde Photos do it no justice

Photos do it no justice

shows age but is in good

all pages bound and not fragile

and I must say I love looking at the back almost as much as the front

it was hand-painted with a tea pot and pillow in red and other tea ceremony accoutrements in copper and silver — nothing extraneous

Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green blonde Photos do it no justiceAs sometimes happens, I had never found one of these old spinning toys until on a recent trip to Pennsylvania where I found a pair, one with intersecting rings like this (that one a bit longer than this), and one with a spinning bird. Then last week at a shop near Brimfield, this one! Hold it flag side down and the rings drop to that end, then turn it right side and they spin down, circling one another. Quite a joy. And feels an apt one to wave at