Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! tabletop pool balls but with their own distinct

but with their own distinct sensibility

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

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

to protect them from the cats

butting heads and getting their arms swinging

Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! tabletop pool balls but with their own distinctI'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