Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup It is signed (incised) Mann

It is signed (incised) Mann on the bottom and marked 7c in ink

perhaps in the early hours of the morning

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

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

It could be a miniature drying rack of sorts upon which one could hang doll-sized clothes and socks to dry

Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board cup It is signed (incised) MannI 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,