Beautiful Antique Wooden Spillikin / Spellican Set in Original Slide Top Box incised with a nice warm patina

with a nice warm patina to the wood and full head of black horsehair bristles--perfect for hanging on the wall as part of a brush or broom collection

is in excellent condition (the wood is just gorgeous

24 collotype plates

There is a small split in the wood on the top of the box toward the very back left side but it is in overall very good condition

Her widely collected work is included in significant museum and private collections around the world

Beautiful Antique Wooden Spillikin / Spellican Set in Original Slide Top Box incised with a nice warm patinaI only recently discovered Spillikins, also called Spellicans a predecessor to jack straws and pick up sticks, which from what I understand originated in China but became very popular as a parlor game in Victorian England. No wonder they are fantastic!!! And super fun to play!!! I've found sets in both wood and bone produced by a few different British makers in the late 19th century which came in a labeled box with printed instructions but these are