Beautifully Worn, Large Sized Set of Five Old Wooden Nesting / Stacking Boxes button toy with surface wear/paint loss here

with surface wear/paint loss here and there

Frame within the frame: 14 3/4" x 10 1/8"

First two photos show all with actual proportions in relation to one another

)  His papered “skin” is stable and not shedding

There are also a number of hotels named Fregatten—perhaps this plate was made for one of those

Beautifully Worn, Large Sized Set of Five Old Wooden Nesting / Stacking Boxes button toy with surface wear/paint loss hereI had to go to Tennessee to find these, as I think I've scooped up every set in New England by now! Useful for stashing things, and as pedestals for other things, but most of all for me just beautiful things, lending themselves to all sorts of satisfying arrangements. These are really old ones, a little taller than they are wide and deep, well loved, with the most paint loss to the rims, as should be the case, and I think is all to the good. I'll