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In-House Letterpress Stationery
Franklin, NY / Western Catskills
Franklin, NY / Western Catskills
Double-sided checkerboard in bittersweet and black paint.
The front of the board is carefully laid out with borders and corner blocks while the back/underside is framed with stretcher boards. Both sides make clever use of unpainted pine as a third color and both differ in the way they use the paint.
The playing field of the back/underside also features the pasted numbers that are common to so-called “correspondence boards” and would have helped two friends play a game by mail.
Late 19th century.
Wear and condition as expected with age.
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