Excellent Old Painted Wood Nesting / Stacking Box Set with Jointed Corners, Beautifully Aged interior painting and to my eye it's

and to my eye it's just formally perfect

and I am quite sure whaler-made

almost all pages filled both front and back

gouache and graphite on paper I believe

The bone on these handmade dominoes is wonderfully irregular

Excellent Old Painted Wood Nesting / Stacking Box Set with Jointed Corners, Beautifully Aged interior painting and to my eye it'sI am forever searching for these hard to find, it's a very happy day when I do, and whenever I list a set they are usually the first thing sold. The paint and the wear is important though the paint on earlier sets like this softens and wears away, rather than chips off I'll never buy a set where the latter is the case! It is possible this set once included a larger red box, but there's five now, with the orange the largest. Jointed corners, great