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but I just love the look of it
with the wings and tail of the blue plane snapped in half with perfect zig zag lines
some of the thread stitching on the bristles is loose
In the 1960s
Rare, Wonderfully Graphic, and Fun 1884 Anderson Whist and Game Counter 19th century valentine but I just love theI really love this thing, an unusually elaborate whist and "game" (I am really not sure what specific games) counter, patented by "Anderson" (I have found nothing definitive about) in 1884. (Whist itself is a trick taking game, which I've happily learned takes its name from the 17th c. word whist (or wist), meaning quiet, silent, attentive, and the root of the modern wistful.) I love it as an object, and a mechanical one, with GAME in black caps
