Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box cutout black and white cat and really love the specificity

and really love the specificity of its intent: to accommodate a full set of twelve utensils

constructed of clay slabs cut into the shape of roosters

as is its form

taught by Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach

Light wear but very good condition

Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box cutout black and white cat and really love the specificityI've looked a bunch but not found another set of these, which were clearly one of the very first sets produced by The Embossing Company of Albany, NY, established in 1870; I believe these date between 1870 1890. I really love the pitch printed on the front of the instructions: "These dominoes are the best and cheapest in the world. They are made by machine and thus exact. The bone faced German and French dominoes are always defective as well as