Box of Antique Hand-carved Miniature Columns/Balustrades (For Dollhouse that Never Was?) boy with flowers but clean inside with many

but clean inside with many years of use left in it

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

It measures 7 1/4" tall x 5 3/8" long x 3 7/8" wide

One of two horizontal struts on the underside of the lid

7 9/16" l x 2 1/8" d x 3 3/16" t and in very good condition

Box of Antique Hand-carved Miniature Columns/Balustrades (For Dollhouse that Never Was?) boy with flowers but clean inside with manyI presume these were made as columns or balustrades for a large and elaborate dollhouse or architectural model of some sort, but appear never to have been put to use, and they feel now rather like antique building blocks with which might might construct all sorts of different things. There were clearly made by hand, with plenty of variation among them and graphite cut marks still on them, and surely have 100 years on them at least. 34 of them total,