19th Century Original Surface Painted Folk Art Folding Game Board, Checks/Chess and Backgammon Inside painterly blue and white bowl and with the gray clouds

and with the gray clouds moving in overhead and rocky island near center

I find this very old tramp art frame super evocative

I'm not sure what this smallish carved acorn finial once topped

Maybe no words needed here

I'd like to think it lived in the studio of Donald Judd

19th Century Original Surface Painted Folk Art Folding Game Board, Checks/Chess and Backgammon Inside painterly blue and white bowl and with the gray cloudsA treat to find this one in southern Maine last week. I don't buy many game boards like signs, I mostly leave them to dealers deeply vested in them but this one was for me, between the terrific white against green paint on the exterior (a board for a Celtics fan!), and the very beautiful long green and blue purple points of the backgammon board inside. (Plus I like a board that is also a box, and the rounded sides of this one look like two long book