Fabulous Set of Old Carved Horse Game Pieces with Terrific Color rio virginia and nice and folky

and nice and folky

which has no ornamentation at all

The beautiful production of this 1908 edition of "The Perfectly Good Cynics Calendar with Astronomical Attachment" belies its contents

a little paint loss in the corners

I think it just stunning and would hang it somewhere strategic for facilitating meditation or just zoning out

Fabulous Set of Old Carved Horse Game Pieces with Terrific Color rio virginia and nice and folkyPerhaps the person who carved these was a maker of chess sets and carved a whole bunch of knights at once? More likely I'd think is that they were made for some kind of horse racing game and I must say that just looking at these makes me think it was a really good one. Whatever the case, I love all these old horse headed pieces as a set now, wearing their original paint in a terrific palette. Great for lining up along the edge of a shelf in a long