This 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.) Wonderfully graphic in black, white and red paint, and very make do, with screw eyes used for the pegs, which are attached to chains so as never to lose them (and so as to immediately pull the pegs out of their holes should one lose the game!) Found in Pennsylvania, clearly much used, terrific dark patina to the dry wood back.
14 3/8" x 4". A little surface loss to the top right and bottom right corners. Otherwise good condition, sturdy and sound, great patina. Just needs a small hook to hang it from the wall.
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