Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box construction This is about the most

This is about the most beautiful hand tool I can imagine

with 4 holes evenly spaced around the top perimeter

These two wonderful drinking bowls were made by indigenous Canelos Quichua women in the Oriente (upper Amazonian) region of Ecuador

Definitely it is Native American

immediately recognizable

Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box construction This is about the mostI've looked a bunch but not found another set of these, which were clearly one of the very first sets produced by The Embossing Company of Albany, NY, established in 1870; I believe these date between 1870 1890. I really love the pitch printed on the front of the instructions: "These dominoes are the best and cheapest in the world. They are made by machine and thus exact. The bone faced German and French dominoes are always defective as well as