Fabulous Wooden Folk Art Black Cat 500 Game Trump and Tricks Marker clog shaped snuff box and its elegant earthiness

and its elegant earthiness

which was such a gem I went back to the seller in Russia to buy two more larger in scale

and it appears

but I am not 100 percent sure

Fabulous Wooden Folk Art Black Cat 500 Game Trump and Tricks Marker clog shaped snuff box and its elegant earthinessOh my, I love every single thing about this, and the person who made it, who much has been both serious about cards and a great deal of fun to play with! A little research tells me that 500 is a trump taking game related to euchre and bridge, and was most popular in the U. S from the turn of the century until the 1920s. Both the head and the tail on this great black cat move, the tip of the tail to indicate the trump suit and the left ear to point to