Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box lead folk art house describing setting out with hope

describing setting out with hope and resolve  and culminating in "The Sailor's Return" ("Now safe returned from danger's past / with joy I hail the shore

13 1/4" t x 2 1/4" w x 7/8" deep

The case reminds me of a bit of a submarine

handles are 6 1/2" tall

but the "REMOVED" on the reverse side suggests it could have be the sign if a car repair shop

Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box lead folk art house describing setting out with hopeThings like this really move me, and I feel immediate responsibility toward them. And in this case, as it happens, the antiques shop where I purchased these tragically went up in flames a few weeks later. It's the box here that does it for me, constructed of old cigar box wood scraps, and especially the lid, with DOMINOES carved into it, and the outline of a domino at either end. And of course the fact that it barely holding together at this point