Amazing Old Primitive Wooden Grater with Embedded Rock Shards interior which almost reads as gold

which almost reads as gold

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

I first picked this up because I liked it as a box--old

Plenty of chips to the paint

6" tall and in very good condition

Amazing Old Primitive Wooden Grater with Embedded Rock Shards interior which almost reads as goldThis 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