Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! primitive stool I've found a few twins

I've found a few twins of these old cast iron boots

There were a few different sizes and variations of these made

that dress

Well this one is not quite the feat of carving that a recently found set of five interlocking whimsy pliers was

Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! primitive stool I've found a few twinsI'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