19th Century Homemade Dominoes in Custom Box with Hand-Inked Lettering (27) colois with grooved wooden trays in

with grooved wooden trays in two of the drawers

likely accompanied by notes as to the skills being demonstrated

--and I especially love the hand-drawn elements in this one

Wear as evident

Lanman / Druggists / New York"  and the number 16 embossed on its base I believe dates to several decades later in the 19th c

19th Century Homemade Dominoes in Custom Box with Hand-Inked Lettering (27) colois with grooved wooden trays inI love an antique set of bone dominoes, but I'm even more partial to homemade wooden ones, which (like antique school slates, though harder to find) I think are a great thing to collect, each set very much its own thing. And it looks to me that the box here was custom made to house these, with fancy, carefully hand inked lettering, spelling DOMINOE, on the slide lid. Nice irregularity to the placement on the carved out dots (a few of which have caught