Excellent Extra Large Set of Victorian Bone Spillikins in Original Wooden Box wooden bossing mallet rather than "shingling" axe

rather than "shingling" axe

I would guess it dates to the fairly early years of the association

with glazes --one a painterly brown and dark indigo

but a great thing just to have hanging on the wall the rest of the time

Excellent Extra Large Set of Victorian Bone Spillikins in Original Wooden Box wooden bossing mallet rather than "shingling" axeI find antique bone Spillikins Spellicans to be pretty extraordinary things, and this is an especially lovely, and large, set. The predecessors to jack straws and pick up sticks, from what I understand Spillikins originated in China but became very popular as a parlor game in Victorian England. I think this is likely two sets that were combined some time ago as it is rare to find such a large group of them, and I'm always especially happy to find the