Unusual, Very Old, Nearly Two Foot Tall Pine Whimsy with Interlocking Moving Parts carved figurine red painted mouths

red painted mouths

This is a stunning mid-century modern faience vase designed by Inge-Lise Koefoed for Royal Copenhagen as part of their Tenera line designed solely by female Scandinavian designers in the late 1950s-1960s

I've always got an eye out for antique playing cards

I thought it was ceramic

It's a vintage 1:10 scale model of the 15th c Gutenberg printing press

Unusual, Very Old, Nearly Two Foot Tall Pine Whimsy with Interlocking Moving Parts carved figurine red painted mouthsNot 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.