Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique doll bench 18" x 12" and in

18" x 12" and in good vintage condition

reddish stained turned wooden handle features a hole near the end for easy hanging

This one is later 19th c

And on the top of the box lid is the "Celluloid" trade mark

and of course what I especially love is the incorporation of monograms into both designs

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique doll bench 18" x 12" and inQuite old, quite unusual, and to my eye just strikingly beautiful. I've seen playing card dominoes, but these are not those; too many different shapes. And too many different shapes to form even a double nines type set of dominoes, too, even if some of the tiles were long since lost. So, maybe made for a game of the makers own invention! The mystery I think makes them even better, as if a sort of dictionary of symbols to be arranged to communicate