Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface wooden animal sculpture walnut I believe

walnut I believe

Though showing a fair amount of loss

so a velvet covered top was added as a replacement to protect them Personally though

From her ringlets

I believe these date to the 1960s or so

Solitary Unicorn and Floating Cross, Old Much Marked and Scrubbed Wooden School Desk Surface wooden animal sculpture walnut I believeIt'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