Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! blue and white sign I do believe old stone

I do believe old stone (marble) fruit

the little ditty "Thirty days has September"

and also itself sort of evincing the gesture of a fall

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

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

Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! blue and white sign I do believe old stoneI'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