Antique Hand-painted Checkerboard on Tin with Insanely Beautiful Surface pig drawing keeping spring near at hand

keeping spring near at hand

highly empathetic character

I really love the delicate frame atop the frame

I just fell in love with the aesthetics of it

All blocks are 3/4" deep

Antique Hand-painted Checkerboard on Tin with Insanely Beautiful Surface pig drawing keeping spring near at handI find this game board spectacularly beautiful, with that creamy white paint making me swoon, and with the most phenomenal surface, that also has some mystery about it, which comes from the intermingling of the aged paint and tin it was painted upon brown and rust and silver all together, difficult to know quite where one ends and another begins. It was quite surprising at first to pick it up and find it quite light in weight, only then understanding