Very Old Make Do Solitaire Game Made from Raisins Crate, with Forged Nail Pegs made in Portugal pewter maybe as a cloche over

maybe as a cloche over a head of garlic

and I believe it is strips of some sort of plastic that run along its spine

Another example of the simpler the better and more beautiful: this is about as straight-forward a wall-hanging mail (or anything) holder as one could conceive

The half-bottle form is attached to its original mount

Very Old Make Do Solitaire Game Made from Raisins Crate, with Forged Nail Pegs made in Portugal pewter maybe as a cloche overLike the old hand drawn Parcheesi game board I just listed, which came from the same source, this old solitaire board is not for everyone, but I sure love it. It is about as make do as it gets, made from one side of an old Del Monte seeded muscat raisins crate, with what look to me like hand forced nails for the the pegs. The wood is aged with both water stains and iron stain trails from the nails, and it really could not be any more basic, but to my