Wonderful Antique Handmade Jacob's Ladder Toy with Great Papers and Striped Cloth Ribbon vintage shell game all laboriously rendered in tiny

all laboriously rendered in tiny glass seed beads

Jones and dated 1909 on the front cover

whose recently deceased father had been an architect and great collector

Good on the table under the coffee pot or tea pot or dishes or candlesticks or whatever

A lot of love invested in this

Wonderful Antique Handmade Jacob's Ladder Toy with Great Papers and Striped Cloth Ribbon vintage shell game all laboriously rendered in tinyTotal joy finding this one, a 19th century handmade Jacob's Ladder, made with a wonderful combination of papers covering the boards, and striped woven ribbons holding them together. Also known as magic tablets and click clack toys, Jacob's ladders are classic folk toys; by holding the top card and flipping it forward, each subsequent card then flips over to the next position, creating a (really quite magical and mesmerizing) cascading illusion. Works