Beautiful Old Wooden Handled Chalkline antique piquet cards 12 1/4" t x 8

12 1/4" t x 8 1/2" w x 1 1/16" d and in very good condition

boxes inside of boxes on top of boxes and so on

The maker of this would have carefully arranged these leaves and hand-cut stenciled letters on top of the paper then finely spattered ink all over

and super luxurious

Beautiful Old Wooden Handled Chalkline antique piquet cards 12 1/4" t x 8This old wooden chalkline tool just struck me as really beautiful, most of all for the blue of the chalk dyed string, which varies in tone and makes it feels like a painting to me! The spool holding the string rotates on the handle in order for the string to be unwound and stretched taut, and it could certainly be put to use once again, though I'd be very content to treat it like a sculpture and just set it somewhere to be admired. 8 3 8" l x 1 1 2"