Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box antique Boston trade card Such fun to find this

Such fun to find this box in Maine the other day--I'd guess an older box adapted 80 or so years ago by a V

I also love how sliding the lid open feels an extension of the body into tail feathers

There are old fold lines visible from where it was folded into eights

they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio) and that three years later he was still celebrating her birth--and/or maybe it just took him that long to get around to it

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Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box antique Boston trade card Such fun to find thisMy favorite find at the Rhinebeck Antiques show last weekend, this is the earliest set of paper dominoes I've ever seen c 1870s I believe, maybe even earlier, hand colored, and with a marvelous array of animals serving as the dots all so good! There are two cards missing (the 5: 5 and 5: 1) but pretty miraculous the find the deck near complete and sold as found in a lovely paper decorated Victorian box with young woman in blue on front. Also inside a