Daily Archives: January 30, 2018
Early Antique Aafa Folk Art Game Board Checkerboard Original Paint Mustard
EARLY ANTIQUE AAFA FOLK ART CHECKERBOARD ORIGINAL MUSTARD PAINT DARK BROWN OR BURGUNDY. Up for sale is this old hand painted checkerboard. It has a great folk art feel to it! The board has a dark rich. Reddish brown board with worn edges, paint loss and hand wear. The gaming part has beautiful Primitive soft creamy mustard/yellow squares with the reddish/dark brown/burgundy wood color alternating squares. The board is an 12 x 12 game field with room for checkers storage during the game on each end. It appears to be made from two wide / large pieces of wood. It measures 31″ L x 19.5″ W and is about 1-1/4 thick. It weighs about 7 lbs. There’s an old wire on two nails to hang it horizontally and a newer picture hanger to hang the checkerboard on the wall vertically. You can see these in the pictures of the back. The back side just brownish red and has scratches, nicks and dings from years of gaming. This side also has worn edges, scrapes, paint loss and hand wear. This is a very nice game board!! As mentioned, there’s some edge wear, paint loss, nicks, scrapes, scratches and dings. There is also a piece of the trim around the outside missing on the upper right corner if looking at the back. On the left side (looking at the back) there is a knot hole that you can see through. All of these “issues” are just as you’d expect from and item of this age. It’s a very nice piece for your collection. Thank you for looking at this item. Please look at the photos for a more accurate description and detail and ask lots of questions if needed. We regularly put up new items so check out our other items. We will do our best to answer your questions. We will handle them on a case-by-case basis. We will do the same. We couldn’t sell anything if it wasn’t for you and the time you have taken to spend looking at our items. As a very small business we strive to keep you as our customer! We GUARANTEE that your item(s) will be received as described. We work hard to describe them correctly and in detail (note that the pictures are part of the description) with all flaws (if any) exposed. The item “EARLY ANTIQUE AAFA FOLK ART GAME BOARD CHECKERBOARD ORIGINAL PAINT MUSTARD” is in sale since Saturday, January 27, 2018. This item is in the category “Antiques\Mercantile, Trades & Factories\Other Mercantile Antiques”. The seller is “americas-place” and is located in Riverside, California. This item can be shipped to United States.