Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box ringer's cigarette cards pin holes and some underline

pin holes and some underline marks in blue ink but no notable tears and color is amazing--better in person

4 1/2" across the other way

shows age but is in good

which perhaps could be used in printmaking processes but is also good just sitting around

This one is very much all about numbers--really purely a book of math problems and solutions

Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box ringer's cigarette cards pin holes and some underlineThings like this really move me, and I feel immediate responsibility toward them. And in this case, as it happens, the antiques shop where I purchased these tragically went up in flames a few weeks later. It's the box here that does it for me, constructed of old cigar box wood scraps, and especially the lid, with DOMINOES carved into it, and the outline of a domino at either end. And of course the fact that it barely holding together at this point