Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup looks positively Goya-esque—at center stage

looks positively Goya-esque—at center stage

perhaps in the early hours of the morning

with just a bit of darkening to the brass

and there are eight very tiny holes forming a pattern on the front

Only recently did I learn--through my mother's sleuthing of pottery marks--that it was made by Michael Cohen

Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup looks positively Goya-esque—at center stageI first picked this up because I liked it as a box old, wooden, and with lots of character but I really fell in love when I opened it to find this beautiful backgammon board inside! Clearly invested with a lot of care, the game board features inlaid blonde wood for the "points" (the elongated triangles), and then wonderful decorative forms down the middle: windmill like shapes at the center of each side, one of them composed entirely of a blonde wood,