Box of Antique Hand-carved Miniature Columns/Balustrades (For Dollhouse that Never Was?) boy with flowers with a clothespin glued to

with a clothespin glued to a piece of wood for the clip

copyright is 1948

One of two horizontal struts on the underside of the lid

but with a little effort it still locks and unlocks great

Box of Antique Hand-carved Miniature Columns/Balustrades (For Dollhouse that Never Was?) boy with flowers with a clothespin glued toI presume these were made as columns or balustrades for a large and elaborate dollhouse or architectural model of some sort, but appear never to have been put to use, and they feel now rather like antique building blocks with which might might construct all sorts of different things. There were clearly made by hand, with plenty of variation among them and graphite cut marks still on them, and surely have 100 years on them at least. 34 of them total,