Intricate, Meticulously Constructedd Vintage Painted Wooden Geometric Model straw basket Many of these represented games

Many of these represented games and various sorts of play

I take one face as meant to be male (short hair

I might have bought this one for myself

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

but emulating a European painting if so

Intricate, Meticulously Constructedd Vintage Painted Wooden Geometric Model straw basket Many of these represented gamesA 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