Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! blue and white sign There is a little minor

There is a little minor rippling of the needlepoint overall

I'd think mid 20th century or so though am not entirely certain

Froebel Gifts 2 through 6 (aka "the Building Gifts") are wood blocks in various shapes and quantities

I do believe old stone (marble) fruit

A little warping to the wood

Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! blue and white sign There is a little minorI'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