Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes old hand-painted side which works well

which works well

as if the watercolor itself were a document of the actual--messy--affair

With titles such as “The Deceitful Raven”

14 pages (folio) filled front and back

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes old hand-painted side which works wellQuite 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