Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle with recipes for cocktails from

with recipes for cocktails from the Absinthe Drop to the Ramos Gin Fizz interspersed with ads for El Encanto Department Store

but I have found no other like it

which I just love for its shape

but might guess 1940s

I love how the design plays with optical perceptions: focusing on the light brown it reads as a series of repeating abstract geometrical patterns

Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle with recipes for cocktails fromI thought this lovely old darning ball needed a spot to sit, so am including a sweet old turned wood cup as a freebie. The ball is beautifully crafted of a light and darker wood, and I think may be German, 1920s 1940s or so. The turned blonde wood cup may be older. A pretty pair to set somewhere to admire if not to put the ball to use mending a sock now and then. The ball measures 2 1 4" across. The cup is 2" tall x 2 3 8" wide. The ball is in overall