Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green blonde Great just to prop somewhere

Great just to prop somewhere but easy to add a hanging hook to the back

with some edge curling as shown

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

all pages bound and not fragile

12 1/4" t x 8 1/2" w x 1 1/16" d and in very good condition

Another Charming Old Wire Spinning Toy, Interlocking Rings in Red and Green blonde Great just to prop somewhereAs 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