Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup with some wear to the

with some wear to the leather and plastic strips and I'd guess some loss of bristles

and then again

with just a bit of darkening to the brass

perhaps in the early hours of the morning

Only recently did I learn--through my mother's sleuthing of pottery marks--that it was made by Michael Cohen

Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup with some wear to theI first picked this up because I liked it as a box old, wooden, and with lots of character but I really fell in love when I opened it to find this beautiful backgammon board inside! Clearly invested with a lot of care, the game board features inlaid blonde wood for the "points" (the elongated triangles), and then wonderful decorative forms down the middle: windmill like shapes at the center of each side, one of them composed entirely of a blonde wood,