19th Century Homemade Dominoes in Custom Box with Hand-Inked Lettering (27) carved kangaroos These are lovely in all

These are lovely in all regards--and with the cardboard box well mended along the way

most notably a Mrs

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

and a variety of nails and a couple of screws holding it together

19th Century Homemade Dominoes in Custom Box with Hand-Inked Lettering (27) carved kangaroos These are lovely in allI 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