Modernist Small Wooden Desk  

I have had this desk for ages, and I've never seen another thing like it.  It has "graffiti" names and dates of 1956 and 1957 as well as "Riverside CA" and an address in Little Rock AK. I don't know what wood it is.  It smells of kerosene, which might be that the wood smells of kerosene (it is very oily wood), or it might be that it was bathed in kerosene.I assume it is American.  And I assume that it was made in the 50s.  It appears to be production made.Anybody ever seen anything like it?
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