Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box lead folk art house with what looks to be

with what looks to be a fingerprint preserved for posterity in the dab at right

2 1/4" tall x 7/8" wide x 5/8" deep

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

I know that this small piece is a fragment from an incredibly intricate mixed metal overlay on an antique Asian table

Old Wooden Dominoes Set in Very Tender Hand-Carved Falling Apart Box lead folk art house with what looks to beThings 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