Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique German Erzgebirge and a little red paint

and a little red paint on the mouth

and landscape with falling water below

which is less comprehensive and less interesting (though very pretty) than the bulk of it

and etched lines radiating from the center

The pages themselves are packed with drawings and notes relating to rendering the specific natures of a wide variety trees

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique German Erzgebirge and a little red paintQuite old, quite unusual, and to my eye just strikingly beautiful. I've seen playing card dominoes, but these are not those; too many different shapes. And too many different shapes to form even a double nines type set of dominoes, too, even if some of the tiles were long since lost. So, maybe made for a game of the makers own invention! The mystery I think makes them even better, as if a sort of dictionary of symbols to be arranged to communicate