Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse treen ink bottle which appears to have been

which appears to have been mailed from Vienna to Davos-Platz in Switzerland in 1907

See photos -- there are a couple of whitish/grayish areas to the glaze on the interior of the bowl as well as what seems to be a very tiny shard of stoneware stuck to the  surface

I found this charming little wooden Japanese Kokeshi-type boy on turtle in a box of odds and ends at the estate sale of a man who had served in Japan during WWII and brought a lot back with him

I'm not sure that I could love this old painting more

signed at lower right

Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse treen ink bottle which appears to have beenNot to everyone's taste, I know, but I think this is really beautiful, and I must say that the more I look at painstakingly painted, carefully crafted antique game boards (fetching grand prices), the more I find myself attracted to rougher and plainer ones, made with whatever was around, and driven by the immediacy of wanting to play! I think this non preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them,