Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box ringer's cigarette cards who had an entire brownstone

who had an entire brownstone on Newbury Street in Boston

This may be my favorite old hand-drawn postcard yet

which I'd guess was likely rendered by the sender

8 1/2" x 4 1/16" and in very good condition

Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box ringer's cigarette cards who had an entire brownstoneThings like this really move me, and I feel immediate responsibility toward them. And in this case, as it happens, the antiques shop where I purchased these tragically went up in flames a few weeks later. It's the box here that does it for me, constructed of old cigar box wood scraps, and especially the lid, with DOMINOES carved into it, and the outline of a domino at either end. And of course the fact that it barely holding together at this point