19th Century Bell and Hammer Game with Original Instructions, Bone Chips and Extra Cards (2 Dice Short) botanical specimens with a strap on side

with a strap on side of the interior for holding them in

Definitely with some age

There is one clean break to one splint on the bottom of the basket—not noticeable looking down into the interior

animated with what look to me like traces of old white paint

19th Century Bell and Hammer Game with Original Instructions, Bone Chips and Extra Cards (2 Dice Short) botanical specimens with a strap on sideThis is the second Bell and Hammer game (aka Whitehorse, and in German Glocke und Hammer or Schimmel) that I've found and as with the first set I had, this one sold me on the box alone. (Such good all caps gold lettering on the slide lid of the box, making it feel to me as if top secret information about the Russians might be housed inside, and then that gorgeous yellow panted border.) This set, fourth quarter 19th century I would guess, includes six