Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) antique wood and glass bottle Super striking in a bright

Super striking in a bright white or mid-century style kitchen

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)

It looks to me that this ruler was made entirely from scratch

some partial

otherwise light wear as pictured but no notable dings

Hand-carved Old Pine Weighted Pin (Knock Down? or Juggling Pin?) antique wood and glass bottle Super striking in a brightI'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