Antique Handmade Leather Dice Cups with Bone Die and Hand-Carved Chips whimsey with spinning wheel as there is no label

as there is no label on the box

14 7/8" tall x 8 1/2" wide x 3 1/4" deep

Frederick Polydore Nodder (1770 – c

who I believe purchased them some years ago from a notable Pennsylvania collection of naive drawings--and how happy I was to discover them

13 1/2" long x 4" tall x 1 3/8" deep

Antique Handmade Leather Dice Cups with Bone Die and Hand-Carved Chips whimsey with spinning wheel as there is no labelSo beautiful! I believe the hand carved wooden chips and bone dice here were made for playing Parcheesi, which became popular here in the last quarter of the 19th century and requires 16 chips and two dice to play (so there are a few spares here, too!) The wonderfully sculptural handmade leather dice cups with cork bottoms on their interiors and small nails around the bottoms of their exteriors fit together so as to keep the contents secure, but then