Wonderful Old Make Do Folk Art Two Player/Team Score Counter with Screw Eye Pegs on Chains antique shoe snuff box no notable stains

no notable stains

probably as a train station shelter or control station

and as jumping off points for more  improvisatory creative play

Balls measure between 1 1/8" to 1 1/4" in diameter

Wonderful Old Make Do Folk Art Two Player/Team Score Counter with Screw Eye Pegs on Chains antique shoe snuff box no notable stainsThis is clearly a homemade score keeping board it also looks a bit like a cribbage board but it is not that made to count up to fifty points for each of two players, or teams, though I have not figured out what specific game it was made for. Not a bad device for counting the weeks of the year then taking 51 and 52 as vacation! (And I'm a big believer in taking folk art counters like this as launching points for inventing games of ones own.)