19th Century Bell and Hammer Game with Original Instructions, Bone Chips and Extra Cards (2 Dice Short) botanical specimens All lovely

All lovely

animated with what look to me like traces of old white paint

And what I especially love about this is that the drawings just barely achieve their intended double-faced natures--requiring one to extend a certain generosity toward the drawings

with a strap on side of the interior for holding them in

There is a split in the wood at the hip of one leg

19th Century Bell and Hammer Game with Original Instructions, Bone Chips and Extra Cards (2 Dice Short) botanical specimens All lovelyThis is the second Bell and Hammer game (aka Whitehorse, and in German Glocke und Hammer or Schimmel) that I've found and as with the first set I had, this one sold me on the box alone. (Such good all caps gold lettering on the slide lid of the box, making it feel to me as if top secret information about the Russians might be housed inside, and then that gorgeous yellow panted border.) This set, fourth quarter 19th century I would guess, includes six