Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse treen ink bottle signed at lower right

signed at lower right

which appears to have been mailed from Vienna to Davos-Platz in Switzerland in 1907

4 3/4” tall

Through all of these carefully laid bits of wood

This vintage Danish Modern Viking figure

Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse treen ink bottle signed at lower rightNot to everyone's taste, I know, but I think this is really beautiful, and I must say that the more I look at painstakingly painted, carefully crafted antique game boards (fetching grand prices), the more I find myself attracted to rougher and plainer ones, made with whatever was around, and driven by the immediacy of wanting to play! I think this non preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them,