Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface Gustavsberg Wonderful blue inked text at

Wonderful blue inked text at center

Then on the back

making the whole thing feel like a gothic house of sorts and revealing a lithographed portrait glued to the interior I might set up a little scenario to be viewed through the round opening

The ball in cage measures 3 1/8" t x 7/8" w x 3/4" d

so was excited to find this lot at Brimfield

Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface Gustavsberg Wonderful blue inked text atIt's the unicorn carved into the surface of this old school desk top that really won me maybe drawn as a horse and acquiring a single horn along the way! And it and feels like a persistent and resilient presence refusing to be erased, even as the rest of the surface looks to have been scrubbed down hard again and again. Some enduring loves (S. L + L. R., etc. too) and this cross or plus sign that feels like the unicorn's personal guiding star! I think