C. 1890 McLaughlin Brothers, NY Wooden “Old Fashioned” Jackstraws in Original Box molded but not quite

but not quite

and I was just about the glue his feet back to it when I though maybe he's better just on his own

A little roughness original to the carving and some small nicks here and there (an a little dust as noted) but in very good shape overall

I think these are pretty old and they've got a few layers of paint on them -- the back of the chair shows an old faded dark red

C. 1890 McLaughlin Brothers, NY Wooden “Old Fashioned” Jackstraws in Original Box molded but not quiteMostly Ive gravitated toward British bone spellicans, which in large part preceded American Jack Straws, but this is a very early set of the latter, c. 1890, in great shape, and I really love that all of the pieces are shaped like tools (specifically intended to represent farm tools from what Ive read.) Each piece has a point value stamped on one sideindicating how many points a player would receive for successful extracting it from the others without