19th Century Homemade Dominoes in Custom Box with Hand-Inked Lettering (27) carved kangaroos The embroideries are sewn onto

The embroideries are sewn onto nice weight black fabric with cardboard backings

named for the stream that flows through the town and and famous for salmon fishery as well as a long

Kansas City--which seems to have been chiefly the effort of Emma Lard Longan (b

which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries

I can read "Aug 11" and have found a couple other examples of this wheel out there that show patent dates of Aug

19th Century Homemade Dominoes in Custom Box with Hand-Inked Lettering (27) carved kangaroos The embroideries are sewn ontoI love an antique set of bone dominoes, but I'm even more partial to homemade wooden ones, which (like antique school slates, though harder to find) I think are a great thing to collect, each set very much its own thing. And it looks to me that the box here was custom made to house these, with fancy, carefully hand inked lettering, spelling DOMINOE, on the slide lid. Nice irregularity to the placement on the carved out dots (a few of which have caught