Eight Carved Whimsy Chains Plus Ball in Cage whimsey with wheel with long and curving trunk

with long and curving trunk

--so one could stack display like a little library

I think this non-preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them

and they make great paperweights

Eight Carved Whimsy Chains Plus Ball in Cage whimsey with wheel with long and curving trunkI thought about listing these carved chains individually, but as I started photographing them it becomes clear that they are really best all as a group, feeling quite luxurious piled up together, kind of like the feeling I get seeing giant vats of richly colored spices, which you just want to run your fingers through! Pretty clearly carved by the same person, I suppose it is possible that these were all part of one continuous chain which at some point