Fabulous Set of Old Carved Horse Game Pieces with Terrific Color rio virginia with fallen log on the

with fallen log on the ground amplifying a sense of loss

and nice and folky

The beautiful production of this 1908 edition of "The Perfectly Good Cynics Calendar with Astronomical Attachment" belies its contents

with a brass caliper that extends another five inches

which has no ornamentation at all

Fabulous Set of Old Carved Horse Game Pieces with Terrific Color rio virginia with fallen log on thePerhaps the person who carved these was a maker of chess sets and carved a whole bunch of knights at once? More likely I'd think is that they were made for some kind of horse racing game and I must say that just looking at these makes me think it was a really good one. Whatever the case, I love all these old horse headed pieces as a set now, wearing their original paint in a terrific palette. Great for lining up along the edge of a shelf in a long