Wonderful Victorian Gaming Set Including Full Deck, Gorgeous Bone Chips and Dice early kindergarten blocks This is a gorgeous art

This is a gorgeous art pottery plate with calla lily design produced by San Jose Pottery

I love knowing the history but it's the drawing I love- especially that pair of snakes with faces formed by their intertwining

There is some darkening to the boards around the edges and smudge marks here and there

on linen cloth--so it is not teeny tiny stitches

with cardboard tabs on the reverse to stand them up

Wonderful Victorian Gaming Set Including Full Deck, Gorgeous Bone Chips and Dice early kindergarten blocks This is a gorgeous artThis was a fun one to find yesterday in Maine, and even more fun to open each of the boxes inside the larger box to find lots of antique bone gaming chips inside, most with handwritten numbers on them, and a handful of bone dice, too. Plus a full 52 card deck of Dondorf, Frankfurt playing cards dating I believe to the very beginning of the 20th century (a very early deck with indices), housed in a red satin draw string pouch embroidered with an ace of