C. 1890 McLaughlin Brothers, NY Wooden “Old Fashioned” Jackstraws in Original Box mosaic animal with the sides of the

with the sides of the darker joined by nails and the lighter with lovely dovetail joints

which I've never seen on a sampler before

"I want to be her

--feel so familiar

suggesting perhaps our seated man is a chaplain

C. 1890 McLaughlin Brothers, NY Wooden “Old Fashioned” Jackstraws in Original Box mosaic animal with the sides of theMostly Ive gravitated toward British bone spellicans, which in large part preceded American Jack Straws, but this is a very early set of the latter, c. 1890, in great shape, and I really love that all of the pieces are shaped like tools (specifically intended to represent farm tools from what Ive read.) Each piece has a point value stamped on one sideindicating how many points a player would receive for successful extracting it from the others without