Think and Surprise All of Us! Perfectly Aged Wooden Desk Sign deerr and the mechanics of activation

and the mechanics of activation

I have since added a bit of archival tape across the back to hold it together

including lots of specimens decommissioned from old science departments and the like

jewel like thing

And of course carved books of all shapes and sizes and colors are always the thing

Think and Surprise All of Us! Perfectly Aged Wooden Desk Sign deerr and the mechanics of activationNo way could I resist this one, which feels ever apt and useful and good in all sorts of contexts. It looks to my eye (with magnifier) like it was stencil painted then varnished over, with the tiny U. S. A painted by hand. There is a faint mark at lower right, really only visible in a certain light, that looks to me to read "Sunken Gardens," so perhaps this was a souvenir from St. Petersburg, Florida? In any case, perfectly aged with tons of