Fabulous Wooden Folk Art Black Cat 500 Game Trump and Tricks Marker pastoraali with a B below for

with a B below for Brenda

but I think it’s the graphic black lines that really make it

and it certainly must have taken some effort to get to paint those balls inside their cages

by much-coveted secret invitation only

pretty early 20th century I believe (from what I’ve learned

Fabulous Wooden Folk Art Black Cat 500 Game Trump and Tricks Marker pastoraali with a B below forOh my, I love every single thing about this, and the person who made it, who much has been both serious about cards and a great deal of fun to play with! A little research tells me that 500 is a trump taking game related to euchre and bridge, and was most popular in the U. S from the turn of the century until the 1920s. Both the head and the tail on this great black cat move, the tip of the tail to indicate the trump suit and the left ear to point to