SOLD Unusual Early 19th C. Wooden Game Counter with Tin Pointers and Hand-painted Numbers hand-painted wallpaper box 5 3/8" x 3 3/8"

5 3/8" x 3 3/8" x 1 1/16"

as they seemed rather less concerned with the details of the face of this presumably Dutch man--sweetly and a bit hesitantly penciling in eyes

Arthur Tilo Alt (1931-2019)--a scholar and professor of German in Yiddish language and literature in the Judaic studies program at Duke University--which came from his estate in Younsgsville

wearing their original paint in a terrific palette

Made of cigar boxes

SOLD Unusual Early 19th C. Wooden Game Counter with Tin Pointers and Hand-painted Numbers hand-painted wallpaper box 5 3/8" x 3 3/8"I was excited to find this a small, handmade 19th century game counter, quite unusual and I think super beautiful. I believe it was made as a counter marker for whist (card game), but it is different than any I've seen in that it combines two hands on one dial, looking more like a clock for teaching time! (but only 0 9) One finds 19th century examples of "long whist" markers (0 9, more common earlier 19th c.) and "short whist markers" (0 5, favored