SOLD Beautifully Primitive Antique Handmade Pine and Tin Marble Maze bookplate with nice softening from age

with nice softening from age and washing

If I came across 100 of these

and this one I think in a league entirely of its own

Cards measure 3 5/16" x 2 1/8"

SOLD Beautifully Primitive Antique Handmade Pine and Tin Marble Maze bookplate with nice softening from ageI've had one or two marble "mazes" of this sort over the years, but this is the oldest and the most primitively handmade I've seen, as so of course I think the most beautiful. Turning it over reveals the wood base to be quite a ways from perfectly round, and so the maze, constructed of tin strips set into radially carved niches, is oblong too. I'm sure I've got a few old marbles lying around that I'll send along with it so to be able to play it