Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! tabletop pool balls with more than a few

with more than a few dings and some paint loss

and quite an old one I believe (Victorian era German I think)-- composition over carved wood frame

butting heads and getting their arms swinging

Oil on canvas nailed to a thick wooden stretcher

And great down to every detail

Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! tabletop pool balls with more than a fewI'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