Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box construction with 4 holes evenly spaced

with 4 holes evenly spaced around the top perimeter

This is about the most beautiful hand tool I can imagine

The mirror on this one is on very good shape and very useful still

and I want to see it on the kitchen counter filled with daffodils

wood is 3/4" thick

Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box construction with 4 holes evenly spacedI've looked a bunch but not found another set of these, which were clearly one of the very first sets produced by The Embossing Company of Albany, NY, established in 1870; I believe these date between 1870 1890. I really love the pitch printed on the front of the instructions: "These dominoes are the best and cheapest in the world. They are made by machine and thus exact. The bone faced German and French dominoes are always defective as well as