Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse carved wooden folk art cat I'm not sure the age

I'm not sure the age

and I'm not entirely sure what all

and one of my very favorite things I've found

with the pins arranged in a diamond formation

Each deck has 52 cards

Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse carved wooden folk art cat I'm not sure the ageNot 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,