Mini Handmade Wooden Dice antique double nine dominoes I just adore the painted

I just adore the painted water-skiing woman on this vintage handkerchief box

who had studied at the Keramische Fachschule in Höhr

but not this drawing---it sold me immediately

This one has had a life

The loom itself was made expressly to perform its function: two of the pieces of wood were notched to allow the other two to lock squarely on top of them

Mini Handmade Wooden Dice antique double nine dominoes I just adore the paintedThese are dice are TINY just over 1 4" inch across on each side but I think they're so good! I've shot them at 2x magnification to properly capture the beauty of their slightly irregular carved wood forms, with great creamy white paint worn away at corners and along sides, and those fantastic black dots that vary a bit in size from side to side and sometime come right up against the edges. Definitely old, and really sweet.