A Fine and Rare Small-Scaled Wall Paper Patterned Painted Pine Checkerboard Gameboard, American, Probably Maine, late 19th / early 20th century

the checkerboard in a tight and precisely drawn pattern of chrome yellow with red and white flowers outlined in red with climbing vine and berries on a chrome yellow ground; the reverse a “game of mill” gameboard in black and salmon on a brilliant green ground with black trailing vines; all with in a cockbeaded edge frame.

David A. Schorsch, New York, 1996