Beautiful Thick Civil War Era Bone and Ebony Dominoes silver polar bear They are made of turned

They are made of turned and painted wood with colorful chromolithographed paper decoration and tapered "legs" screwed to wood bases

but I think nice to have in the group as it contextualizes the others

one of thirteen children of sharecropper parents who went on to acquire their own farm

What I especially like about these is the repetition of a single letter over and over in both capital and lowercase form

perspective

Beautiful Thick Civil War Era Bone and Ebony Dominoes silver polar bear They are made of turnedThese are just the sort of antique bone dominoes I look for true Civil War era American I believe; thick, irregular and buttery smooth, with ebony backs and three brass pins positioned more or less on the horizontal, with the center pin a great spinner. A beautiful, complete double six set. Dominoes measure 1 3 4" l x 7 8" w x 7 16" thick and are in very good condition. There are a couple of splits to the wood on the back of two of them, and some