Sumptuous Antique Bone Gaming Chips in Handmade Slide-top Box dollhouse scale Signed and dated at bottom

Signed and dated at bottom right

the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist who made this piece

it is untraceable to a specific maker

One side of the slate shows a patch of horizontal lines scratched across the center

so I was delighted to find this little charmer of a pencil drawing of Nellie's "Album" inside this pretty little 1851 copy of "Icicle"

Sumptuous Antique Bone Gaming Chips in Handmade Slide-top Box dollhouse scale Signed and dated at bottomSliding open the lid of this box to find it filled with these old bone gaming chips was, for me, about it good as it gets just pure, lush beauty, and with the added joy of running one's fingers through them! Carved of bone, some of these are dyed the most gorgeous shades of yellow some darker, some lighter, all perfect in combination with the un dyed ones, and with a few pink ish ones mixed in for good measure. Hand written on the lid of the box (note