Unusual, Very Old, Nearly Two Foot Tall Pine Whimsy with Interlocking Moving Parts painted antique basket though it appears to have

though it appears to have been a pretty contemporary one--though Lucy's version takes some license (in the placement of the label for Nigretia

and which used to be blue

painted on both sides with some paint loss as obvious

I like how her bonnet reads a bit like a big head of hair

blue on cream cream stock

Unusual, Very Old, Nearly Two Foot Tall Pine Whimsy with Interlocking Moving Parts painted antique basket though it appears to haveNot an easy one to photograph as it stands almost 2 feet tall, but quite a wonderful, and definitely unusual, whimsy, unlike any I've seen. With a square base (it stands on its own) and tapering to a round bulb at top, it features four "cages" of sorts: one with with a squarish "ball", one with a "+" inside that slides up and down, and two with carved parts that extend well outside the cages, one straight across, the other in all four directions.