Scarce 1860s Civil War Patriotic Cover, American Flag Perimeter fox and geese game board and quite striking I think

and quite striking I think

written from Elias A Brown to his dear wife--Louisa Anna (Cady) Brown— in Minaville

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13 15/16" x 10 1/4" open (and why would yopu ever want to close it

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Scarce 1860s Civil War Patriotic Cover, American Flag Perimeter fox and geese game board and quite striking I thinkI am sure there are other examples of this particular Civil War era "patriotic" cover out there, but I can't find one. 34 flags, representing the 34 states at the start of the war, and with each flag, due to inconsistencies in the inking and stamping, slightly different than the next. I find this very beautiful as an object, and richly poignant as a stand alone thing now, speaking to unity and division, boundaries and borders, freedom and constraint,