Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse tearful alternating in direction

alternating in direction

and rust creeping in around the edges

and one part pure Maine

plus he has these finely and emphatically painted eyebrows

It was made of papier-mache over a wire structure

Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse tearful alternating in directionNot to everyone's taste, I know, but I think this is really beautiful, and I must say that the more I look at painstakingly painted, carefully crafted antique game boards (fetching grand prices), the more I find myself attracted to rougher and plainer ones, made with whatever was around, and driven by the immediacy of wanting to play! I think this non preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them,