Spice, Clams and Pickels, Old Hand-carved Wooden Groceries List with Pegs halloween drawing 8 3/4" x 6 7/8"

8 3/4" x 6 7/8" Good condition

and this one I think stands as a quite an interesting

but I love it even more knowing its origins and that its brown body

I am pretty certain these wonderful hand-painted turned wooden pins or skittles are French and that they date to the 1920s or so

Some splits to the wood here and there due to shrinkage

Spice, Clams and Pickels, Old Hand-carved Wooden Groceries List with Pegs halloween drawing 8 3/4" x 6 7/8"Such a fun one which was definitely made to be used, with carved pegs for keeping track of whether eggs or lard, butter or tomattoes [sic] were needed. I I love a good list, all the better a carved one, and really like the mix of items here, and the order in which they appear revealing an active thought process of ticking through the necessities, but in a bit of a jumping around associative sort of order, as is very human soap to soup, matches to oil