Puzzling Old Interlocking Whimsy Carving scoop including for the fact that

including for the fact that someone pretty early on made them their own open-faced box from cigar box pieces

the other on the interior

I really love the increasingly distressed face of this child

with a color that appropriately reminds one of honey

These wonderful things

Puzzling Old Interlocking Whimsy Carving scoop including for the fact thatI've been living with this one awhile so as to enjoy it and puzzle over it! before parting with it. My pondering was on whether it is actually composed of two tightly interlocking pieces of wood or was just incised on the surface to give that illusion but I've now learned that indeed this was a carpenter's trick, and so this a carpenter's whimsy. I love it as a very satisfying physical object (there is absolutely no wiggle between those two pieces;