Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box vintage buttons And then this curly wool

And then this curly wool hair--or maybe meant to be a cap

with no chips or cracks

she is 4 3/8"

which I don't think detracts at all

That sealed the deal since I have a bit of an obsession with puppets of late (and also with many things French)

Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box vintage buttons And then this curly woolI've looked a bunch but not found another set of these, which were clearly one of the very first sets produced by The Embossing Company of Albany, NY, established in 1870; I believe these date between 1870 1890. I really love the pitch printed on the front of the instructions: "These dominoes are the best and cheapest in the world. They are made by machine and thus exact. The bone faced German and French dominoes are always defective as well as