Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! blue and white sign as is typically the case

as is typically the case

I'd think mid 20th century or so though am not entirely certain

made by Empire Brush Works of Port Chester

I do believe old stone (marble) fruit

lending itself to an endless variety of arrangements of birds in and around the tree

Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! blue and white sign as is typically the caseI'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