Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse tearful the largest of Spain’s Canary

the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands

but that's part of what makes it wonderful

all the better for the rusty

which is just right

and one part pure Maine

Primitive Old Pencil-drawn Wooden Parcheesi Game Board with Great Reverse tearful the largest of Spain’s CanaryNot to everyone's taste, I know, but I think this is really beautiful, and I must say that the more I look at painstakingly painted, carefully crafted antique game boards (fetching grand prices), the more I find myself attracted to rougher and plainer ones, made with whatever was around, and driven by the immediacy of wanting to play! I think this non preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them,