Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! primitive stool To the right of the

To the right of the pocket is a ribbed match striker

Well this one is not quite the feat of carving that a recently found set of five interlocking whimsy pliers was

but everything else seems to be in place

And quite a wonderful collection I think it is

Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! primitive stool To the right of theI'm not quite sure how the surface of this box came to be so, but it makes me super happy that it did, and I feel as if it might just hold the secrets of the universe! (My guess it that a child many years ago went to work on it with a sharp tool, yielding a mix of letters and numbers and symbols that, together with a few gauges and a bit of paint here and there add up to a pretty fantastic surface. The sides and bottom are much less carved up; the