New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate bottle vase ) but the etched decoration

) but the etched decoration covering most every inch of this decanter/bottle is like my very favorite sort of early 19th century naive drawings/watercolors and needlepoint samplers

And quite a delightful elegance to the construction of the whole thing too

so forgive the crummy pictures

and would press against the board as the chalk did its work drawing the lines

and then the word Mariposas

New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate bottle vase ) but the etched decorationI 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