Excellent Old Painted Wood Nesting / Stacking Box Set with Jointed Corners, Beautifully Aged interior painting I like how two horizontal

I like how two horizontal toning lines running from the left eye evoke a sense of this creature seeing both straight ahead and to the side at once

gouache and graphite on paper I believe

The bone on these handmade dominoes is wonderfully irregular

It looks there may be a name carved into the wood but it is hard to discern

Excellent Old Painted Wood Nesting / Stacking Box Set with Jointed Corners, Beautifully Aged interior painting I like how two horizontalI am forever searching for these hard to find, it's a very happy day when I do, and whenever I list a set they are usually the first thing sold. The paint and the wear is important though the paint on earlier sets like this softens and wears away, rather than chips off I'll never buy a set where the latter is the case! It is possible this set once included a larger red box, but there's five now, with the orange the largest. Jointed corners, great