Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface Gustavsberg with its large eye and

with its large eye and coiled tail

simple period frame

so was excited to find this lot at Brimfield

and a rainbow of colors

Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface Gustavsberg with its large eye andIt'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