Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) antique wood and glass bottle otherwise light wear as pictured

otherwise light wear as pictured but no notable dings

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

as I might have guessed early 1970s (with the lettering having a bit of an Evel Knievel / Bad News Bears / Free to Be You and Me vibe)

Found in Maine and I think a pretty old one

The board on the front is for Parcheesi

Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) antique wood and glass bottle otherwise light wear as picturedI'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