Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface Gustavsberg but then I realized it

but then I realized it was surely a prize for the winner of what must have been a fierce Old Maid card game

Then on the back

so was excited to find this lot at Brimfield

The ball in cage measures 3 1/8" t x 7/8" w x 3/4" d

Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface Gustavsberg but then I realized itIt's the unicorn carved into the surface of this old school desk top that really won me maybe drawn as a horse and acquiring a single horn along the way! And it and feels like a persistent and resilient presence refusing to be erased, even as the rest of the surface looks to have been scrubbed down hard again and again. Some enduring loves (S. L + L. R., etc. too) and this cross or plus sign that feels like the unicorn's personal guiding star! I think