Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face antique copper vessel but with the invention of

but with the invention of both rubber gloves and rubber condoms following on the heels of Charles Goodyear's invention of vulcanized rubber in America 1839 (patented in 1844)

I'm not in the least an expert on old game boards

Delicate and special feeling

7 1/16” x 4 3/8” and in very good condition

of just the sort I look for

Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face antique copper vessel but with the invention ofI don't know the origins of this one, but clearly it is quite old, the wood worn very smooth, and with some remnants of a sort of bittersweet paint visible on both the head and the body. The carving of the lower body suggests it might once have slide inside of something else, or perhaps was wrapped in cloth perhaps a fertility fetish figure of sorts. Whatever the case, to my eye it doesn't get much better than that very primitively carved face. And