lower right
" perhaps the initials of the carver and the year 1911
See photos -- there are a couple of whitish/grayish areas to the glaze on the interior of the bowl as well as what seems to be a very tiny shard of stoneware stuck to the surface
the precise use for each I haven't delved deep enough to understand
Surely it was the head/tip of an old tool of some sort
Scarce Antique German Froebel Kindergarten Paper Plaiting Kit, Full 1817 lower rightIt made me so happy to find this a complete, almost entirely untouched Froebel kindergarten paper plaiting (weaving) kit in original box, made in Germany, late 19th century or so. You may know that I am obsessed with Friedrich Froebel's invention of kindergarten, and the rigorous, creative, expansive philosophy of learning informing it, and paper plaiting is my favorite kindergarten "Gift" of all. Here, should one wish to put it to use, is everything