Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box antique Boston trade card I also love how sliding

I also love how sliding the lid open feels an extension of the body into tail feathers

I have taken it out of the frame to inspect it

12 1/4" t x 6 1/2" widest x 2" deep

Such fun to find this box in Maine the other day--I'd guess an older box adapted 80 or so years ago by a V

but I think its a pretty good one

Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box antique Boston trade card I also love how slidingMy favorite find at the Rhinebeck Antiques show last weekend, this is the earliest set of paper dominoes I've ever seen c 1870s I believe, maybe even earlier, hand colored, and with a marvelous array of animals serving as the dots all so good! There are two cards missing (the 5: 5 and 5: 1) but pretty miraculous the find the deck near complete and sold as found in a lovely paper decorated Victorian box with young woman in blue on front. Also inside a