Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols vintage wooden box Face itself measures 4 1/2"

Face itself measures 4 1/2" across

This and the rest from what I understand came from a  sketchbook of drawings Malta did in the 1930s or so

with a little light scratching on a couple of the coasters as documented

and Dewitt Clinton for high school--then moved to York

nor I am certain of its origins

Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols vintage wooden box Face itself measures 4 1/2"Things 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