Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box first aid and also perhaps possessed

and also perhaps possessed

Looking closely reveals that the lips of his carved face were once painted bright red too

the paper is fairly brittle

and a few screws that attach and hold the mirror in place

I've included a short video clip of this toy rolling

Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box first aid and also perhaps possessedThings like this really move me, and I feel immediate responsibility toward them. And in this case, as it happens, the antiques shop where I purchased these tragically went up in flames a few weeks later. It's the box here that does it for me, constructed of old cigar box wood scraps, and especially the lid, with DOMINOES carved into it, and the outline of a domino at either end. And of course the fact that it barely holding together at this point