Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box ringer's cigarette cards made to slip into the

made to slip into the pocket or purse of the smoker on the go

This one is very much all about numbers--really purely a book of math problems and solutions

so am not quite sure of the age of this piece

which I'd guess was likely rendered by the sender

This may be my favorite old hand-drawn postcard yet

Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box ringer's cigarette cards made to slip into theThings 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