Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols student achievement medal and at top right it

and at top right it the edge of a lace curtain

I believe and surely made by a school girl

and this terrific alligator cracking to the paint on the "good" side

and not a lost stitch anywhere that I can see

Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols student achievement medal and at top right itThings like this intrigue and delight me with their primitiveness and earnestness and sense of purposefulness that seems now rather mysteriousness and unknowable. Found in Maine, certainly it was a folk creation maybe, with heart dangling on what might be taken for a chain on one side, a valentine of sorts, or maybe an offering to the gods in hopes of love! What's going on the other sides is a bit less clear, but looks rather like hieroglyphics, and