Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique German Erzgebirge color bright and strong

color bright and strong

and etched lines radiating from the center

and landscape with falling water below

and a little red paint on the mouth

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique German Erzgebirge color bright and strongQuite old, quite unusual, and to my eye just strikingly beautiful. I've seen playing card dominoes, but these are not those; too many different shapes. And too many different shapes to form even a double nines type set of dominoes, too, even if some of the tiles were long since lost. So, maybe made for a game of the makers own invention! The mystery I think makes them even better, as if a sort of dictionary of symbols to be arranged to communicate