Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels clever drawings but it's the flip side

but it's the flip side that is the really special one to me

but in fact these men on horseback are playing "Chaugan

which I think may be British

repeated four times around the perimeter of the basket

They measure 3 1/2" in diameter and 1 1/8" tall and are in very good vintage condition

Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels clever drawings but it's the flip sideI found this one at Brimfield in the booth of a delightful seller who always has charming things; it was filled end to end with a bunch of old children's books, but happily she was willing to relocate those into a big pile and let me steal the shelf away, as I'm pretty smitten with these squirrels! Made with lots of love I'd bet by a parent or grandparent as a gift for a young child in the 1940s or 50s, with mellow gold paint on the exterior of the