Small Double Sided Relief Carved Panel with Canoeing Figure, House and Animals miners intense face and wonderfully detailed

intense face and wonderfully detailed long mane of hair

with its original box

The wooden dowel rolls smoothly

and then someone beautifully carved/burned "CHESS" next to it

combined with the crusty white interiors

Small Double Sided Relief Carved Panel with Canoeing Figure, House and Animals miners intense face and wonderfully detailedI found this little carving at Brimfield in July and wanted to enjoy it for a bit before parting with it. I really don't know where it came from or why it is shaped the way it is at first I thought the lid of a carved box, but there is no sign there were ever hinges on it, just a small hole at the center of the bottom edge, which could have held a latch. (Maybe it was originally carved it as a box lid but its maker decided it was just right as a stand