Think and Surprise All of Us! Perfectly Aged Wooden Desk Sign carved man in hat from the block letters on

from the block letters on the box to the silhouettes of kids with balloons on the back of each card

crafted I'd think a century and a few decades ago from cigar box scraps

I found these two bottes in New Hampshire

were used to make these

but with all sorts of marvelously primitive incised/scrimshawed drawings unfolding across its surface

Think and Surprise All of Us! Perfectly Aged Wooden Desk Sign carved man in hat from the block letters onNo way could I resist this one, which feels ever apt and useful and good in all sorts of contexts. It looks to my eye (with magnifier) like it was stencil painted then varnished over, with the tiny U. S. A painted by hand. There is a faint mark at lower right, really only visible in a certain light, that looks to me to read "Sunken Gardens," so perhaps this was a souvenir from St. Petersburg, Florida? In any case, perfectly aged with tons of