Unusual Old Folk Art Cribbage Board with Carved Trumps and Inlaid Playing Cards bronze box and the interior lacquer is

and the interior lacquer is in excellent shape

and wonderfully tell the story of their construction from scraps of wood and and bits of woven trim for their hangers

I purchased it at the estate sale of a family of artists who had many wonderful things

Love at first sight with this one--she called to me loudly through the glass of the locked case of a dealer based in New Hampshire and there was no way I could walk away

this and another I have just listed were found in the attic at a Boston estate

Unusual Old Folk Art Cribbage Board with Carved Trumps and Inlaid Playing Cards bronze box and the interior lacquer isI used to be a very good cribbage player, though am now quite out of practice, but I definitely appreciate a good folk art cribbage board when I find one, and this is quite an unusual one, too. (It's not a very hard game to learn, and just requires a deck of cards in addition to the board, and really we need more cribbage players in the world!) A deck was sacrificed in making this one, with the corners of jacks of each suit cut and inlaid into to