New Favorite Thing, Perfectly Interlocking Two Piece Steel Worker's Whimsy (?) Indonesian painting and I know pulled out

and I know pulled out of an old boat builder's shop in Ellsworth

2 7/8" t x 2 3/8" w x 2 1/8" d

as evident in detail photos

maybe one of a series by the maker

and especially the fat

New Favorite Thing, Perfectly Interlocking Two Piece Steel Worker's Whimsy (?) Indonesian painting and I know pulled outHard to capture the satisfying weight of this when held in the hand, or the very satisfying way one piece fits into the other, and the two hold together, as if by magnetic force, but they are not magnets. Cut of iron steel thick enough to stand on its side, with the two pieces arranged in various configurations, like small scale sculpture. Perhaps this was made by as a practice exercise in cutting squarely, or maybe by a steel worker as a whimsy of