Hand-painted Cased Photo of Woman in Blue Dress with Cupcake Hat! shaving mirror holding the bottom box together

holding the bottom box together and telling me someone once really cared a lot about these

The book plate is from a 1870 French volume I believe titled "Le Ciel" (the Sky)

The original complete set could either have been for 6 or 8 players

and this great old egg basket is I believe the largest one of it's kind I've seen and can be configured in all sorts of ways

which shows small dings here and there and a little darkening along one edge

Hand-painted Cased Photo of Woman in Blue Dress with Cupcake Hat! shaving mirror holding the bottom box togetherMy favorite thing about this wonderfully hand painted photo portrait is this exuberantly and very painterly painted hat, which looks rather like a white cake with colorful frosting all over it! But the treatment of her dress I think is just right too, with a great folkiness that animates and humanizes her in a wonderful way, and makes what seems like her Sunday best feel all the more special and significant. (And which also makes her feel rather like