Handmade 1960s Crayoned Wooden Blocks Set in Old Box with Notes bookend There is a chip to

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

This old lock is somewhat rusty

which I'm taking as a assertion of power and self possession

Based on one similar that I have found

the paper cutouts are a bit off center

Handmade 1960s Crayoned Wooden Blocks Set in Old Box with Notes bookend There is a chip toSo 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