Handmade 1960s Crayoned Wooden Blocks Set in Old Box with Notes bookend with some rusting

with some rusting

as if calling across time to be re-considered at this moment

There is a chip to the surface of the wood at the end of his nose on one side and to the tip of his hat on one side

Box measures 5" w x 3" d x 2 7/8" t

Handmade 1960s Crayoned Wooden Blocks Set in Old Box with Notes bookend with some rustingSo many sorts of things I cant resistwooden blocks being one, and all the more so handmade ones, these in two senses: the wood (as hand written text on the side of the box notes) came from Friburg [sic] Fair in Maine (Fryeburg fair, a blue ribbon agricultural fair founded in 1851), then was cut (pretty irregularly) into blocks as a gift for David, who then (I bet it was him) crayoned numbers and letters onto all sides. Likely there were once a few