Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box planter It is an antique book

It is an antique book page from a volume of Zeitschrift für populäre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy) published by Lith Anst

and would be used to task the test taker with recreating increasingly complex designs shown by the test administrator within specified time limits

I'm guessing that the leather strip threaded through the cheeks of this old primitively carved figure once formed a loop by which it hung

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Marvelous 19th Century Hand-colored Paper Dominoes with Animals in Pretty Victorian Box planter It is an antique bookMy favorite find at the Rhinebeck Antiques show last weekend, this is the earliest set of paper dominoes I've ever seen c 1870s I believe, maybe even earlier, hand colored, and with a marvelous array of animals serving as the dots all so good! There are two cards missing (the 5: 5 and 5: 1) but pretty miraculous the find the deck near complete and sold as found in a lovely paper decorated Victorian box with young woman in blue on front. Also inside a