Unusual Old Folk Art Cribbage Board with Carved Trumps and Inlaid Playing Cards bronze box Louis Marx

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and wonderfully tell the story of their construction from scraps of wood and and bits of woven trim for their hangers

including shiny black on the sides and nice red and black striping on the stacks

Love at first sight with this one--she called to me loudly through the glass of the locked case of a dealer based in New Hampshire and there was no way I could walk away

I purchased it at the estate sale of a family of artists who had many wonderful things

Unusual Old Folk Art Cribbage Board with Carved Trumps and Inlaid Playing Cards bronze box Louis MarxI used to be a very good cribbage player, though am now quite out of practice, but I definitely appreciate a good folk art cribbage board when I find one, and this is quite an unusual one, too. (It's not a very hard game to learn, and just requires a deck of cards in addition to the board, and really we need more cribbage players in the world!) A deck was sacrificed in making this one, with the corners of jacks of each suit cut and inlaid into to