Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols student achievement medal 6" long x 3 1/2

6" long x 3 1/2 tall not including tail (5 1/8" tall with tail)

There are about 32 samples in one of the books and 18 in the other

and not a lost stitch anywhere that I can see

and understand that they were railroad signs--I'd guess this one signaled "caution" with stop ahead

I believe and surely made by a school girl

Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols student achievement medal 6" long x 3 1/2Things like this intrigue and delight me with their primitiveness and earnestness and sense of purposefulness that seems now rather mysteriousness and unknowable. Found in Maine, certainly it was a folk creation maybe, with heart dangling on what might be taken for a chain on one side, a valentine of sorts, or maybe an offering to the gods in hopes of love! What's going on the other sides is a bit less clear, but looks rather like hieroglyphics, and