Wonderful Old Make Do Folk Art Two Player/Team Score Counter with Screw Eye Pegs on Chains victorian seaweed sample so scooped this curious little

so scooped this curious little one up when I found it

with her exuberant basket of flowers and matching flower on her hat

and especially words and phrases that have the capacity to take on different meanings in different contexts

and her drawing of a very cheerful home at the end of the journey

and rather transcendent of season

Wonderful Old Make Do Folk Art Two Player/Team Score Counter with Screw Eye Pegs on Chains victorian seaweed sample so scooped this curious littleThis is clearly a homemade score keeping board it also looks a bit like a cribbage board but it is not that made to count up to fifty points for each of two players, or teams, though I have not figured out what specific game it was made for. Not a bad device for counting the weeks of the year then taking 51 and 52 as vacation! (And I'm a big believer in taking folk art counters like this as launching points for inventing games of ones own.)