Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) bunch of antique marbles Stable and sound and not

Stable and sound and not very fragile

I'd like to think many of them--Mackinaw bridge

which definitely give the game added weight

I would guess the wood is ebony

patterns fit into a larger geometric order

Carved, Painted Old Folk Art Whimsy with Glass Marble Ball (ex. Matt King collection) bunch of antique marbles Stable and sound and notI watched this one recently come and go in at auction as part of the late dealer collector Matt King's estate, one in a lot of several objects. (With most everything fetching prices way beyond me, I gave up.). But then this little whimsy showed up elsewhere (I guess the buyer bought the lot for something else in it) so I grabbed it. How that marble got inside is a bit less of a mystery than I thought (one short end shows a diagonal cut, so the wood