Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique German Erzgebirge ) Everything about this

) Everything about this

and etched lines radiating from the center

The pages themselves are packed with drawings and notes relating to rendering the specific natures of a wide variety trees

which is less comprehensive and less interesting (though very pretty) than the bulk of it

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique German Erzgebirge ) Everything about thisQuite 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