SOLD Unusual Early 19th C. Wooden Game Counter with Tin Pointers and Hand-painted Numbers antique pill silverer thinner and crackled in others

thinner and crackled in others

and photos of vernacular towers

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This vase is signed on the bottom with what might say "Hiller"

And I find this drawing

SOLD Unusual Early 19th C. Wooden Game Counter with Tin Pointers and Hand-painted Numbers antique pill silverer thinner and crackled in othersI was excited to find this a small, handmade 19th century game counter, quite unusual and I think super beautiful. I believe it was made as a counter marker for whist (card game), but it is different than any I've seen in that it combines two hands on one dial, looking more like a clock for teaching time! (but only 0 9) One finds 19th century examples of "long whist" markers (0 9, more common earlier 19th c.) and "short whist markers" (0 5, favored