Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! tabletop pool balls The set of three fit

The set of three fit in neat little cutouts in the cardboard base of the original blue box

All this allows the box to close up super tight

to protect them from the cats

with more than a few dings and some paint loss

Oil on canvas nailed to a thick wooden stretcher

Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! tabletop pool balls The set of three fitI'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