Rare, Wonderfully Graphic, and Fun 1884 Anderson Whist and Game Counter 19th century valentine or perhaps signaling for help

or perhaps signaling for help

and it is a super useful one

and for sure the only of its kind I've ever seen

as how could this wonderful guy not take take top prize

though I'm very content just looking at the bottles lined up in a row

Rare, Wonderfully Graphic, and Fun 1884 Anderson Whist and Game Counter 19th century valentine or perhaps signaling for helpI really love this thing, an unusually elaborate whist and "game" (I am really not sure what specific games) counter, patented by "Anderson" (I have found nothing definitive about) in 1884. (Whist itself is a trick taking game, which I've happily learned takes its name from the 17th c. word whist (or wist), meaning quiet, silent, attentive, and the root of the modern wistful.) I love it as an object, and a mechanical one, with GAME in black caps