Beautiful Double-Sided Antique Walnut Make Do Gameboard atlas tacks and this wear certainly suggests

and this wear certainly suggests it was hung and seen

Best of all is the design of original box

which I found at a fantastic estate sale of a world traveller and avid collector in Lynn

Earthy and elegant at once

The bowl is is marked on bottom: "LO58" (in relief) and stamped "Made in West Germany" and "1786

Beautiful Double-Sided Antique Walnut Make Do Gameboard atlas tacks and this wear certainly suggestsI don't think photos fully do justice to this really lovely, very elegant old game board, made long ago from a walnut table leaf. On the front side, the white paint against the smooth dark wood reads almost as silver, with beautifully hand written numbers, 1 32, at the top left corner of each square. On the reverse, the checkerboard is oriented horizontally, again with hand numbered squares, with the paint here reading almost pale peach. Of course I