"Morn by Wood" Antique Folk Art Carved Book on Starry Panel double portrait I've found a few other

I've found a few other carved antler mushrooms

mustardy yellow

including for the fact that someone pretty early on made them their own open-faced box from cigar box pieces

The word Nandi has come from Tamil root word Nandhu

there appears to be some fraktur style lettering done in black ink on the reverse

"Morn by Wood" Antique Folk Art Carved Book on Starry Panel double portrait I've found a few otherI love carved books of all sorts, and this one, found in Pennsylvania, is both beautiful and curious. Into the spine is carved "Morn by Wood", the "Wood" I have to think a playful reference to the material from which the book was carved. And then on the face of it garlands and stars carved all around the title, highlighted in gold paint , as are the edges of the pages, and feeling about as optimistic as the coming dawn, while at the same time perhaps