Wonderful Antique Handmade Jacob's Ladder Toy with Great Papers and Striped Cloth Ribbon signed Japanese fan looking to me like a

looking to me like a domestic dog (though definitely with some seal-like attributes

actually reminding me a bit of his portrait of Gertrude Stein--as if a this were a portrait of woman looking toward modernity

I'd say--and good in all sorts of contexts

Absent a lid as evident

Wonderful Antique Handmade Jacob's Ladder Toy with Great Papers and Striped Cloth Ribbon signed Japanese fan looking to me like aTotal joy finding this one, a 19th century handmade Jacob's Ladder, made with a wonderful combination of papers covering the boards, and striped woven ribbons holding them together. Also known as magic tablets and click clack toys, Jacob's ladders are classic folk toys; by holding the top card and flipping it forward, each subsequent card then flips over to the next position, creating a (really quite magical and mesmerizing) cascading illusion. Works