Early 20th Century Table Croquet Set Mexican blanket a fantastic tangle of wires

a fantastic tangle of wires holding them in place

joined to one another by small nails and then by four pieces of wire strung through holes and neatly twisted along the bottom edge

while the sifting area is woven of a finely twisted natural fiber the same color just a shade darker than the grass

which included a collection of several other Indonesian nutcrackers

and the patterns they form (outlined in dark blue and with yellow details) are just perfectly satisfying

Early 20th Century Table Croquet Set Mexican blanket a fantastic tangle of wiresThere are a few different companies that made lovely table croquet sets in the early 20th century very similar to this one, mostly British and French from what I've found, and I believe this one is French. Included here are 4 mallets, 6 balls, 2 posts, and 8 charming little wickets with red painted steel feet, housed in their original box. Ideal for playing on a pool table, this set has many years of use in it yet, though the individual components are