Japanese Horse Roulette in Turned Wooden Box with Great Text on Bottom shaker type box I'm ever on the hunt

I'm ever on the hunt for old playing cards with no indices

and which is actually a brand-name American adaptation of the Native American board game Pachisi

and former Collections Manager and Librarian for Architecture

while she teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division

is one of her finds

Japanese Horse Roulette in Turned Wooden Box with Great Text on Bottom shaker type box I'm ever on the huntI cannot resist objects like this, which wear the stories of their lives on their sleeves or bottoms, as is the case here. The thing itself is great, and a rare one: a very sweet old turned wood box with terrific galloping red horse on top and roulette wheel inside, which spins super fast, rolling the metal ball around until it lands in one of the recesses, marking the winning horse. One assumes the five little wooden chips stamped with horses 1 5 are