Antique Hand-painted Checkerboard on Tin with Insanely Beautiful Surface fawn I [West Indies] / Hand

I [West Indies] / Hand Carvings Done By Natives / Shoe Polish Stain"

One on side are two holes-- blowing through the top one sets the hand-carved little wheel spinning

but I love it as an object

intent on teaching French vocabulary to her children--makes me very happy

Antique Hand-painted Checkerboard on Tin with Insanely Beautiful Surface fawn I [West Indies] / HandI find this game board spectacularly beautiful, with that creamy white paint making me swoon, and with the most phenomenal surface, that also has some mystery about it, which comes from the intermingling of the aged paint and tin it was painted upon brown and rust and silver all together, difficult to know quite where one ends and another begins. It was quite surprising at first to pick it up and find it quite light in weight, only then understanding