Beautifully Shaped Stone (Tool?) with Incised 1843 danish porcelain as if a woodpecker went

as if a woodpecker went to work pecking away at them

One small loose drawing held inside pages

the only flaw is a few white paint drips on the front of the owl

to discover it is a (hefty

Beautifully Shaped Stone (Tool?) with Incised 1843 danish porcelain as if a woodpecker wentI really don't know if this stone served a function, though I have to think that it did it has too long and smooth of a bottom edge, and fits too perfect in one's grip not to have been used for something! And one has to imagine that the J. D who took the time to carefully caved his initials and the year 1843 into it did so because it was an important thing to him. I am sure someone out there can identify the use my grabbing it (and not letting it go)