Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board 'three-dimensional drawings including on the bottom of

including on the bottom of both the box and the interior tray

but have a slight hunch they may be Korean and would guess they date from the 1940s or early 50s

but I like her style

The image featured is Poirer's “Le Discours de la Méthode

Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board 'three-dimensional drawings including on the bottom ofI first picked this up because I liked it as a box old, wooden, and with lots of character but I really fell in love when I opened it to find this beautiful backgammon board inside! Clearly invested with a lot of care, the game board features inlaid blonde wood for the "points" (the elongated triangles), and then wonderful decorative forms down the middle: windmill like shapes at the center of each side, one of them composed entirely of a blonde wood,