Fabulous Old Handmade "Club Checkers" Box, with Checkers marquetry box this would be great framed

this would be great framed or just hung directly on the wall

but I am not entirely certain

thus yielding wonderfully inky pools of saturated color around its shoulders and neck

There are small chips in the surface on a handful of them

1911 and addressed (to a Mr

Fabulous Old Handmade "Club Checkers" Box, with Checkers marquetry box this would be great framedDefinitely among my favorite boxes I've found is this wonderfully primitive handmade checkers box with this fantastic hand drawn paper label spelling "club checkers" in round letters and with two little clubs to boot. The box appears to have been made with wood salvaged from cigar boxes or wooden crates, with a lid that slides through a notch in the side of the box and then through two tiny pins, one above it and one below. Silvery gray paint