Beautiful Double-Sided Antique Walnut Make Do Gameboard handwork and just a tiny tear

and just a tiny tear to the paper on the lower left edge

The fact that a few different companies produced these

and signed on the underside of one foot

The doll measures 11 1/2 inches tall and 4 inches wide

making me pretty certain of the attribution

Beautiful Double-Sided Antique Walnut Make Do Gameboard handwork and just a tiny tearI don't think photos fully do justice to this really lovely, very elegant old game board, made long ago from a walnut table leaf. On the front side, the white paint against the smooth dark wood reads almost as silver, with beautifully hand written numbers, 1 32, at the top left corner of each square. On the reverse, the checkerboard is oriented horizontally, again with hand numbered squares, with the paint here reading almost pale peach. Of course I