Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box antique Boston trade card There are old fold lines

There are old fold lines visible from where it was folded into eights

As far as I can tell this is a pretty rare one

I have taken it out of the frame to inspect it

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

Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box antique Boston trade card There are old fold linesMy 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