Intricate, Meticulously Constructedd Vintage Painted Wooden Geometric Model straw basket I am not certain the

I am not certain the age of this piece but know it has been held in a folk art collection for at least the past 25 years

Feels aligned with the pure beauty of old school baseball

Many of these represented games and various sorts of play

on a desk for holding rubber bands

with some variation in the writing--and in the scale of animals

Intricate, Meticulously Constructedd Vintage Painted Wooden Geometric Model straw basket I am not certain theA very carefully constructed geometric model composed of hundreds of precisely cut wooden bits a far cry in appearance from science class toothpick and putty models, but born of the same method. I don't know the maker or the context in which it came to be perhaps a math class at MIT! Second half 20th century I presume, and clad in a thin coat of mustard colored paint. It does not stand on its own due to the angled sides, but is very striking just hung