Beautiful Old Handmade Spinning Chalk Line WInder with Blue and Pink String French wooden blocks or valentines

or valentines

This is a wonderfully nuanced vintage Zanesville Stoneware Company (Ohio) ribbed round planter

pretty crudely carved and painted gold

as if done by an artist whose work I have seen somewhere but can't place

Beautiful Old Handmade Spinning Chalk Line WInder with Blue and Pink String French wooden blocks or valentinesI've got a special weakness for chalk line winders, and this is a really beautiful one, not least for the very old string on it, which changes from blue to pink as one unwinds. Along the way, it has been knotted to itself several times either to lengthen the line or, I think more likely, to mend it. The spool piece spins on the handle for easy winding and unwinding, and the handle is smooth and worn from handling. Love. 10 1 2 x 3 1 2 x 1 and in very