Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup most of the time the

most of the time the design appears as gestural abstract forms

looks positively Goya-esque—at center stage

It could be a miniature drying rack of sorts upon which one could hang doll-sized clothes and socks to dry

It is signed (incised) Mann on the bottom and marked 7c in ink

perhaps in the early hours of the morning

Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup most of the time theI first picked this up because I liked it as a box old, wooden, and with lots of character but I really fell in love when I opened it to find this beautiful backgammon board inside! Clearly invested with a lot of care, the game board features inlaid blonde wood for the "points" (the elongated triangles), and then wonderful decorative forms down the middle: windmill like shapes at the center of each side, one of them composed entirely of a blonde wood,