Japanese Horse Roulette in Turned Wooden Box with Great Text on Bottom shaker type box or as a toothbrush holder

or as a toothbrush holder

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

with her body basically a wooden post (visible on the back side)

Like the old hand-drawn Parcheesi game board I just listed

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

Japanese Horse Roulette in Turned Wooden Box with Great Text on Bottom shaker type box or as a toothbrush holderI 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