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

with some rusting

with no chips or cracks at all that I can see

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

This old lock is somewhat rusty

Based on one similar that I have found

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