Excellent Antique Modernist (Very Froebel-esque) Handmade Wooden Boxed Cube Puzzle folk art construction With lovely ash splint curls

With lovely ash splint curls and woven sweet grass handle on the lid

though its scale is exactly right

with pointy tip at the bottom--are just terrific

) The interior of the neck is shows texture

feeling as if transcending time and place

Excellent Antique Modernist (Very Froebel-esque) Handmade Wooden Boxed Cube Puzzle folk art construction With lovely ash splint curlsI've found that the more times I shop Brimfield, the more I've become inclined to almost exclusively purchase little things that will easily fit in my bag (I seem to have gotten quite lazy about heavy schlepping) and particularly small things delivering unexpected delights that are easily overlooked by others who are moving faster across the fields. Like this handmade boxed puzzle cube which evinces both Froebel's kindergarten "Gifts" of boxed blocks