As Found: Lovely c. 1870s Set of Bone Game Pegs with Handwritten (in French) Solitaire Instructions and Score Cards hanging clip dear little maid

dear little maid

As such it feels a bit more like a "crazy quilt" than most

with a little staining to the watercolor at bottom right corner

I'd say--this a lovely late 19th c

And the paper label adhered to the slide lid is interesting and unusual

As Found: Lovely c. 1870s Set of Bone Game Pegs with Handwritten (in French) Solitaire Instructions and Score Cards hanging clip dear little maidI found these bone pegs just like this, stashed in one side of the wooden box included in photos, with the pale blue paper and handwritten scoring cards folded up and stuck in to the other. And they may just have sat there just like that since the 1870s. 1874 appears on the face of the scoring cards, which look to have been cut down from printed tickets for a lecture sermon by Charles Jean Marie Loyson (18271912), better known by his religious name