Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box cutout black and white cat Made it in Africa I

Made it in Africa I believe and probably at least a few decades old

Her right hand is a bit lower

and really love the specificity of its intent: to accommodate a full set of twelve utensils

6 1/8" long x 3" across at widest part of handle / 4 1/2" across at bristles

Other versions of the award have been designed since

Early Double Nine Embossing Company Dominoes in Original Wooden Box cutout black and white cat Made it in Africa II've looked a bunch but not found another set of these, which were clearly one of the very first sets produced by The Embossing Company of Albany, NY, established in 1870; I believe these date between 1870 1890. I really love the pitch printed on the front of the instructions: "These dominoes are the best and cheapest in the world. They are made by machine and thus exact. The bone faced German and French dominoes are always defective as well as