Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs kinetic toy Made for a classroom or

Made for a classroom or playroom I'd think

while showing a little surface rust/staining (heightened in photos) are clean and completely usable

or a folk art recreation of one

these boxes feature in museum collections around the world

Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs kinetic toy Made for a classroom orThe shape of this old carved wood buoy does it for me, with the sway of the form making with think of a human figure, back arched and belly protruding. What makes it really beautiful to me, though, is the surface patina, particularly how the white paint shows a rainbow of scuffs and stains accumulated through banging up against other things. Like a 3 dimensional painting that might happily live next to a Frank Stella or Richard Tuttle, and I'd treat