Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box vintage buttons with no chips or cracks

with no chips or cracks

That sealed the deal since I have a bit of an obsession with puppets of late (and also with many things French)

I've found a few other boxes designed in a similar manner

perfectly aged and worn

their dog and their parents

Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box vintage buttons with no chips or cracksI've looked a bunch but not found another set of these, which were clearly one of the very first sets produced by The Embossing Company of Albany, NY, established in 1870; I believe these date between 1870 1890. I really love the pitch printed on the front of the instructions: "These dominoes are the best and cheapest in the world. They are made by machine and thus exact. The bone faced German and French dominoes are always defective as well as