Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) antique wood and glass bottle The board on the front

The board on the front is for Parcheesi

as I might have guessed early 1970s (with the lettering having a bit of an Evel Knievel / Bad News Bears / Free to Be You and Me vibe)

What fun to have this vintage Towle pewter shell game set around--perhaps to pull out at cocktail parties

some partial

and seeming just the right complement to the grid of simple division math problems below

Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) antique wood and glass bottle The board on the frontI've been finding myself attracted of late to objects that are all about form and materiality, and which beg to be arranged in relationship to other objects that are all about the same; this is a prime example a bit of a mystery, at least to me, but a beautiful and satisfying thing. Hand carved of pine, which has a acquired a wonderful warm dry patina, it is weighted at the bottom, so definitely not a masher, but rather I think either a very old