Two Marvelous Old Painted Wooden Folk Art Stacking Toys Kellogg's 255 broom with some wear to the

with some wear to the paint and scratches as there should be--perfect

Frame is vintage

hand-painted in white against the red

The one at left in first photo measures 8 1/8" tall

I believe these date to the mid-to-late 19th century

Two Marvelous Old Painted Wooden Folk Art Stacking Toys Kellogg's 255 broom with some wear to thePure joy to find these two this weekend; I love a stacking toy, and more so an old handmade one, better yet a pair, and better still one of them which is really quite ingenious in its construction and the manual dexterity challenges it presents (as well as the creative possibilities for configuration it allows)! It's the one on the right that is the unusual one, with a series of staggered cross bars on the post with correspondingly shaped cutouts at