Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box art and especially that very tall

and especially that very tall dress hat and even taller topper

as if a window offering a view of a boy uncomfortably trapped inside the box

How to resist this beauty

with a wonderful ambiguity of scale

so couldn't resist this one

Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box art and especially that very tallMy favorite find at the Rhinebeck Antiques show last weekend, this is the earliest set of paper dominoes I've ever seen c 1870s I believe, maybe even earlier, hand colored, and with a marvelous array of animals serving as the dots all so good! There are two cards missing (the 5: 5 and 5: 1) but pretty miraculous the find the deck near complete and sold as found in a lovely paper decorated Victorian box with young woman in blue on front. Also inside a