Beautiful Double-Sided Antique Walnut Make Do Gameboard handwork and just a tiny tear

and just a tiny tear to the paper on the lower left edge

I've found some clothespin sailors

and the two hinges on the back

and signed on the underside of one foot

making me pretty certain of the attribution

Beautiful Double-Sided Antique Walnut Make Do Gameboard handwork and just a tiny tearI 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