Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse carved wooden folk art cat thin forms

thin forms

2" tall with tail x 2 1/4" l x 15/16" d

In great vintage condition

he's in very good shape

I believe this clown dates to the 1940s or so

Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse carved wooden folk art cat thin formsNot to everyone's taste, I know, but I think this is really beautiful, and I must say that the more I look at painstakingly painted, carefully crafted antique game boards (fetching grand prices), the more I find myself attracted to rougher and plainer ones, made with whatever was around, and driven by the immediacy of wanting to play! I think this non preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them,