Ebony and Painted Tin Old Double Sixes Dominoes Set, Complete barrel boxes Raising the status of American

Raising the status of American stoneware

Definitely it is antique

with light aging to the copper and some rusting/scratching to the tin

Interestingly

with lovely long turned wooden handle and whitish-gray soft horsehair bristles

Ebony and Painted Tin Old Double Sixes Dominoes Set, Complete barrel boxes Raising the status of AmericanOh, man, do I find these old dominoes beautiful. I've been long admiring old ivory dominoes, but I must say I like these even better, with creamy white painted tin faces inlaid over ebony wood, and gorgeously irregular they really look like a painting! The back sides, featuring a hunting dog in slight relief, are pretty great too. I believe these date to the 1920 30s, and they come in their original box, which features very faint text on the underside