Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box first aid Looking closely reveals that the

Looking closely reveals that the lips of his carved face were once painted bright red too

and also perhaps possessed

but with no tears otherwise and a gorgeous patina to the leather on both sides

I was thinking it would be THE perfect thing for displaying a beautiful collection of old stone fruit

making me think perhaps a Sunday school class

Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box first aid Looking closely reveals that theThings like this really move me, and I feel immediate responsibility toward them. And in this case, as it happens, the antiques shop where I purchased these tragically went up in flames a few weeks later. It's the box here that does it for me, constructed of old cigar box wood scraps, and especially the lid, with DOMINOES carved into it, and the outline of a domino at either end. And of course the fact that it barely holding together at this point