Antique Shield with (Satisfyingly Loud!) Gavel Knocker in Best Yellow Paint toys that teach angle design (I have not taken it

(I have not taken it out of the frame

And while I have mostly photographed it outside the frame

With a really great

plus beautifully carved details on all sides and in between

Finland and the Kola Peninsula

Antique Shield with (Satisfyingly Loud!) Gavel Knocker in Best Yellow Paint toys that teach angle design (I have not taken itI believe this wooden shield with gavel knocker is likely fraternal looks to me like a gothic "C" (maybe combined with two horizontal strokes of an F?) painted in silver against that old best yellow paint. Perhaps the gavel was struck to call meetings to order, or perhaps the shield hung on the outside of the door to the inner sanctum, where all secrets would be revealed. Who knows? What I do know is that the wooden gavel, suspended from a bent strip