Beautifully Shaped Stone (Tool?) with Incised 1843 danish porcelain I was happy to find

I was happy to find the original paper labels lining the interior of the box

16 3/4" x 6 1/16" x 6" t

very lovely thing-- a gift to a Betty S

as if a woodpecker went to work pecking away at them

thus becoming more like symbols or icons of the very idea of time

Beautifully Shaped Stone (Tool?) with Incised 1843 danish porcelain I was happy to findI really don't know if this stone served a function, though I have to think that it did it has too long and smooth of a bottom edge, and fits too perfect in one's grip not to have been used for something! And one has to imagine that the J. D who took the time to carefully caved his initials and the year 1843 into it did so because it was an important thing to him. I am sure someone out there can identify the use my grabbing it (and not letting it go)