Five Million Dollar Bills, 1930s Lucas Co. Play Money Print Block (for Super Scarce Game of Conquest) carved wooden key holder cut into halves

cut into halves

Really sweet

I'm not attracted to this sort of majolica as a rule

but believe this is one

Five Million Dollar Bills, 1930s Lucas Co. Play Money Print Block (for Super Scarce Game of Conquest) carved wooden key holder cut into halvesA grid of five million dollar bills what could be better?! (Well, I do have a block of 20 million dollar bills listed separately, so maybe those!) Certainly apt for the moment, too. A fun and excellent object, but what makes it extra cool to me is that the play money it was made to print was for the game of Conquest, produced by the Lucas Co of Reading, MA in 1936 a dead stock set of which I bought and sold some months ago, with the (poignant) object