Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes old hand-painted side Graphite and watercolor on paper

Graphite and watercolor on paper

Slides measure 2 5/16" x 3/4" ea and all are in very good condition

printed on the back surrounded by two leafy branches

and it is quite a nicely sized sampler

"be more fully known to the museum's public

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes old hand-painted side Graphite and watercolor on paperQuite old, quite unusual, and to my eye just strikingly beautiful. I've seen playing card dominoes, but these are not those; too many different shapes. And too many different shapes to form even a double nines type set of dominoes, too, even if some of the tiles were long since lost. So, maybe made for a game of the makers own invention! The mystery I think makes them even better, as if a sort of dictionary of symbols to be arranged to communicate