Five Million Dollar Bills, 1930s Lucas Co. Play Money Print Block (for Super Scarce Game of Conquest) antique Persian vase when silhouettes and painted portraits

when silhouettes and painted portraits were just giving way to photographic ones

And maybe also because I keep fantasizing about a great old farmhouse bathroom with clawfoot tub in which I'd spend half my time soaking

and definitely capturing the spirit of a fierce and powerful alligator

the oak wood box is constructed of four hinged parts with triangular shaped ends

Five Million Dollar Bills, 1930s Lucas Co. Play Money Print Block (for Super Scarce Game of Conquest) antique Persian vase when silhouettes and painted portraitsA grid of five million dollar bills what could be better?! (Well, I do have a block of 20 million dollar bills listed separately, so maybe those!) Certainly apt for the moment, too. A fun and excellent object, but what makes it extra cool to me is that the play money it was made to print was for the game of Conquest, produced by the Lucas Co of Reading, MA in 1936 a dead stock set of which I bought and sold some months ago, with the (poignant) object