Victor Gordon's Hand-carved Wooden Jackstraws in Double Sided Slide Top Box standing inlaid wood frame Initialed in the bottom right

Initialed in the bottom right corner what looks like C

or just stuck in a vessel to admire

and the third one some red wax down one side as noted

fashionistas

true jet black of those gorgeous clubs--the most beautiful suit of the deck I think--bleeding a little around the edges

Victor Gordon's Hand-carved Wooden Jackstraws in Double Sided Slide Top Box standing inlaid wood frame Initialed in the bottom rightA fabulous set of old wooden jackstraws, made by a Victor Gordon, who proudly noted so on the slide type box, which I'd guess he made as well, underlining "Handmade" for emphasis. Almost all of the pieces shaped like arrows and paddles and bows and spades have a number value written on one side, which would be the number of points one gets for successfully extracting them from the pile. One paddle shaped piece has a bent nail attached to served as the