Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols vintage wooden box I'm really smitten with this

I'm really smitten with this sweet little hand-painted German porcelain figurine of a pink cheeked

This and the rest from what I understand came from a  sketchbook of drawings Malta did in the 1930s or so

with a couple of small tears to pages on either side

And then these teeth

as are the wheels on the wheelbarrow

Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols vintage wooden box I'm really smitten with thisThings like this intrigue and delight me with their primitiveness and earnestness and sense of purposefulness that seems now rather mysteriousness and unknowable. Found in Maine, certainly it was a folk creation maybe, with heart dangling on what might be taken for a chain on one side, a valentine of sorts, or maybe an offering to the gods in hopes of love! What's going on the other sides is a bit less clear, but looks rather like hieroglyphics, and