Antique Olive Wood Relief Carving with Bible, Arrow, Club, Tools salesman sample mid-19th century

mid-19th century

and would be easy to add a little hook to the back to hang--I'd say in the kitchen

Yellow roof: 4 1/4" wide and deep

Holds a picture measuring approx 5 3/4" x 3 3/4"

I'd especially love this in a farmhouse kitchen

Antique Olive Wood Relief Carving with Bible, Arrow, Club, Tools salesman sample mid-19th centuryIt took some searching but I am fairly certain this carving was made in Jerusalem, late 19th early 20th century I believe, quite wonderfully carved of beautiful olive wood, with a combination of symbols arranged to form a sort of cross, arrow on one diagonal, what I take for a club on the other, Bible at the center. Someone more knowledgable that I might readily discern the symbolic meaning of each object, but as with Masonic imagery, I'm quite