Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique doll bench I can't even imagine how

I can't even imagine how one had the patience to make this one

with the specimens

and some age toning (darkening) to the paper I'm sure

visualizing a whole collection arranged across a few shelves

And on the top of the box lid is the "Celluloid" trade mark

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique doll bench I can't even imagine howQuite old, quite unusual, and to my eye just strikingly beautiful. I've seen playing card dominoes, but these are not those; too many different shapes. And too many different shapes to form even a double nines type set of dominoes, too, even if some of the tiles were long since lost. So, maybe made for a game of the makers own invention! The mystery I think makes them even better, as if a sort of dictionary of symbols to be arranged to communicate