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

and a rainbow of colors

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

but this one is special because I have have identified the subject and even more so because I am fairly certain this painting of him was done by now widely renowned early 19th c

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