Any idea what this is?

Ron Evers · Oct 30, 2016

Trever1t · Oct 30, 2016

yes, it's a sound block for a gavel to strike! (not that anyone has ever stuck one in my presence

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I would venture to say walnut?

Ron Evers · Oct 30, 2016

Trever1t said:
yes, it's a sound block for a gavel to strike! (not that anyone has ever stuck one in my presence )

I would venture to say walnut?

Interesting take but no, not a sound block & not Walnut. It is fabricated from a soft wood, likely pine but it is well aged to give it that walnut colour (patina).

Advanced Photo · Oct 30, 2016

It is a frame turned upside down, the eye hooks are on the sides for hanging.

Ron Evers · Oct 30, 2016

Advanced Photo said:
It is a frame turned upside down, the eye hooks are on the sides for hanging.

I was tempted to remove the eye hooks to make it more difficult but - - -

Here it is from the face. It is a pic of some relative but nobody now living knows who.

Advanced Photo · Oct 30, 2016

I would have still know it, I frame things for a living. lol The holes would have still been present anyways so anyone could have guessed it.

I like these what is it games. I used to have a doctor friend that would go to auctions and buy the oddest things that he came across, not knowing what it was and then bring it to me to be identified, I did fairly well on first tries, but I could always give him an answer by the next time we met.

Ron Evers · Oct 30, 2016

As mater of speculation, due to the clothing on the woman, it may be my paternal grandmother's grandmother, Lady Drinkwater. She was disgraced for marrying a commoner named Jones & they moved from England to Canada & settled next to a waterfall near Owen Sound Ontario. To this day, the site is known as Jones Falls.

Waterfalls | City of Owen Sound