Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box first aid and also perhaps possessed

and also perhaps possessed

the paper is fairly brittle

making me think perhaps a Sunday school class

and a few screws that attach and hold the mirror in place

One small loss to the frame at lower left corner visible on the "winter" side

Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box first aid and also perhaps possessedThings like this really move me, and I feel immediate responsibility toward them. And in this case, as it happens, the antiques shop where I purchased these tragically went up in flames a few weeks later. It's the box here that does it for me, constructed of old cigar box wood scraps, and especially the lid, with DOMINOES carved into it, and the outline of a domino at either end. And of course the fact that it barely holding together at this point