Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique doll bench with the specimens

with the specimens

reddish stained turned wooden handle features a hole near the end for easy hanging

unusual in my experience for a folk painting on slate

18" x 12" and in good vintage condition

and of course what I especially love is the incorporation of monograms into both designs

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique doll bench with the specimensQuite old, quite unusual, and to my eye just strikingly beautiful. I've seen playing card dominoes, but these are not those; too many different shapes. And too many different shapes to form even a double nines type set of dominoes, too, even if some of the tiles were long since lost. So, maybe made for a game of the makers own invention! The mystery I think makes them even better, as if a sort of dictionary of symbols to be arranged to communicate