Fabulous Wooden Folk Art Black Cat 500 Game Trump and Tricks Marker clog shaped snuff box and its elegant earthiness

and its elegant earthiness

I'm a big fan of old Sapolin products to begin with (they sold little bottles of gold paint for Japanning in terrific dome-lidded turned wooden boxes that I always grab when I find them)

16 1/4" long x 10 3/4" tall x 1 3/4" deep

Randall Darwall (1948-2017)

as well as larger scale site-specific collaborations with architects and builders (including for the interior of the Eastern Airlines building at Kennedy International Airport

Fabulous Wooden Folk Art Black Cat 500 Game Trump and Tricks Marker clog shaped snuff box and its elegant earthinessOh my, I love every single thing about this, and the person who made it, who much has been both serious about cards and a great deal of fun to play with! A little research tells me that 500 is a trump taking game related to euchre and bridge, and was most popular in the U. S from the turn of the century until the 1920s. Both the head and the tail on this great black cat move, the tip of the tail to indicate the trump suit and the left ear to point to