Twelve Men's Morris Old Handmade Game Board with Folk Art Bird Peg! world war two 2 3/4" across at foot

2 3/4" across at foot and 1 3/8" at lip

this 1938 first edition of “Developing Sales Technique and Personality” by Dave Colcord does a pretty good job of selling itself

There are small chips in the surface on a handful of them

with these thin black threads tethering the two together

Definitely it is handblown Italian Murano

Twelve Men's Morris Old Handmade Game Board with Folk Art Bird Peg! world war two 2 3/4" across at footI am not sure if this is the ultimate "make do," creation, or whether the peg with bird on top was devised to give flourish to the winning player's triumphant final move, but In any case, a pretty terrific display object I think, and playable yet! The board, certainly pretty old, is for the ancient strategy game most commonly known as Twelve Men's Morris (a variation on Nine Men's Morris, and also known as mills and marl) played by two people. Players