Description:
Paint-decorated Checkers/Parcheesi Game Board, America, late 19th century, square double-sided painted panel with applied mitered molding, one side painted with a checkers game with a border of colored-segmented lines, and surrounded by colorful diamond chains on a creamy white ground, the reverse painted with a Parcheesi game with polychrome five-point stars in the corners, 16 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.
Provenance: America Hurrah, purchased in 1989.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
The checker side more thoroughly decorated than the Parcheesi side, the checkers side has numerous small specks of brown stains, especially on one end.
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