Intricate, Meticulously Constructedd Vintage Painted Wooden Geometric Model construction toy Stable and not fragile now

Stable and not fragile now

) I really like the folky naivete of it

I presume it is a mother hidden somewhere there under this wide and ambling drape of cloth--an unusual expanse as far as I've seen

with a very believably lemon-like skin and a few brown spots for good measure

as something of a retort to notions of keeping women in the kitchen (or nursery

Intricate, Meticulously Constructedd Vintage Painted Wooden Geometric Model construction toy Stable and not fragile nowA 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