Think and Surprise All of Us! Perfectly Aged Wooden Desk Sign carved man in hat or just read them however

or just read them however you like

which I almost removed but decided to leave on as it is part of this board's pretty fantastic patina

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

were used to make these

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

Think and Surprise All of Us! Perfectly Aged Wooden Desk Sign carved man in hat or just read them howeverNo 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