Antique Handmade Leather Dice Cups with Bone Die and Hand-Carved Chips Andre Dimanche bird making it ready to throw

making it ready to throw on for some backyard pitch and catch (it fits nice and snug

which he could proverbially water when lifted

but I haven't identified her definitively

and then her location: Sing Sing

This is a Stanley model 36 1/2" -- twelve inches unfolded

Antique Handmade Leather Dice Cups with Bone Die and Hand-Carved Chips Andre Dimanche bird making it ready to throwSo beautiful! I believe the hand carved wooden chips and bone dice here were made for playing Parcheesi, which became popular here in the last quarter of the 19th century and requires 16 chips and two dice to play (so there are a few spares here, too!) The wonderfully sculptural handmade leather dice cups with cork bottoms on their interiors and small nails around the bottoms of their exteriors fit together so as to keep the contents secure, but then