C. 1890 McLaughlin Brothers, NY Wooden “Old Fashioned” Jackstraws in Original Box mosaic animal suggesting perhaps our seated man

suggesting perhaps our seated man is a chaplain

which I've never seen on a sampler before

wonderfully illustrating how to "enlarge or diminish by means of a square

--feel so familiar

and artist statements

C. 1890 McLaughlin Brothers, NY Wooden “Old Fashioned” Jackstraws in Original Box mosaic animal suggesting perhaps our seated manMostly Ive gravitated toward British bone spellicans, which in large part preceded American Jack Straws, but this is a very early set of the latter, c. 1890, in great shape, and I really love that all of the pieces are shaped like tools (specifically intended to represent farm tools from what Ive read.) Each piece has a point value stamped on one sideindicating how many points a player would receive for successful extracting it from the others without