Amazing Old Primitive Wooden Grater with Embedded Rock Shards interior I think the dark gray

I think the dark gray cut paper border is the perfect detail to bring it out

Overall dimensions: 5 1/2" wide x 6 7/8" tall

I like the idea of this antique souvenir being used to mark places for future journeys in a giant world atlas

which once belonged to the Reading Lab at Illinois State University

which almost reads as gold

Amazing Old Primitive Wooden Grater with Embedded Rock Shards interior I think the dark grayThis I believe is one of the most amazing things I've ever found, which I'd be inclined to call a "made do" creation, though one which must have required a great deal of work to make do. Perhaps it was first made as a cutting board, I'm not sure, but hundreds of tiny chips of rock (looking rather like teeth, and gathered from where I am not sure, perhaps remnants of some sort of chiseling or chipping process?) were painstakingly embedded into it