Ebony and Painted Tin Old Double Sixes Dominoes Set, Complete barrel boxes with lovely long turned wooden

with lovely long turned wooden handle and whitish-gray soft horsehair bristles

Raising the status of American stoneware

in multiple Scandinavian languages as well as German

Interestingly

I believe they were intended for children

Ebony and Painted Tin Old Double Sixes Dominoes Set, Complete barrel boxes with lovely long turned woodenOh, man, do I find these old dominoes beautiful. I've been long admiring old ivory dominoes, but I must say I like these even better, with creamy white painted tin faces inlaid over ebony wood, and gorgeously irregular they really look like a painting! The back sides, featuring a hunting dog in slight relief, are pretty great too. I believe these date to the 1920 30s, and they come in their original box, which features very faint text on the underside