SOLD Unusual Early 19th C. Wooden Game Counter with Tin Pointers and Hand-painted Numbers hand-painted wallpaper box Print area: 4" x 3

Print area: 4" x 3 1/4"

So it seems these days

Vesta Kent of (I can't quite decipher the town) Maine

At the center is this wonderful raised appliquéd woman holding a scythe

wearing their original paint in a terrific palette

SOLD Unusual Early 19th C. Wooden Game Counter with Tin Pointers and Hand-painted Numbers hand-painted wallpaper box Print area: 4" x 3I was excited to find this a small, handmade 19th century game counter, quite unusual and I think super beautiful. I believe it was made as a counter marker for whist (card game), but it is different than any I've seen in that it combines two hands on one dial, looking more like a clock for teaching time! (but only 0 9) One finds 19th century examples of "long whist" markers (0 9, more common earlier 19th c.) and "short whist markers" (0 5, favored