Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup ” “Hell’s Habitants Considered as

” “Hell’s Habitants Considered as a Traveling Circus

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

Only recently did I learn--through my mother's sleuthing of pottery marks--that it was made by Michael Cohen

and then again

Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup ” “Hell’s Habitants Considered asI 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,