Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse treen ink bottle signed at lower right

signed at lower right

Just stunning

I found this charming little wooden Japanese Kokeshi-type boy on turtle in a box of odds and ends at the estate sale of a man who had served in Japan during WWII and brought a lot back with him

The head measures 6 1/2" tall x 4" deep x 3" wide

Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse treen ink bottle signed at lower rightNot to everyone's taste, I know, but I think this is really beautiful, and I must say that the more I look at painstakingly painted, carefully crafted antique game boards (fetching grand prices), the more I find myself attracted to rougher and plainer ones, made with whatever was around, and driven by the immediacy of wanting to play! I think this non preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them,