Old Handmade Wooden Dominoes in Great Old Slide Top Box card came making a really wonderful tabletop

making a really wonderful tabletop sculpture

Photos don't do justice to this terrific old frame

3 5/8" t x 1 3/8" and in good structural shape

1830-40s I believe

This one is signed William S

Old Handmade Wooden Dominoes in Great Old Slide Top Box card came making a really wonderful tabletopIn my experience, old handmade wooden dominoes are actually scarcer than bone ones, so I'm always glad when I find them, and this set in a great old handmade slide lid pine box, with the name Amanda written in cursive, in graphite, on the underside of the lid. (A last name too, hard to read, and some various additions and subtractions.) I really like the wonkiness to the placement on the dots on these, which were deeply carved then inked painted