As Found: Lovely c. 1870s Set of Bone Game Pegs with Handwritten (in French) Solitaire Instructions and Score Cards hanging clip but these nails seem to

but these nails seem to have been in place a good long whole and hold the blade tightly

body measures 2 3/4" wide

though I don't think I've ever seen four together

I'd say--this a lovely late 19th c

As such it feels a bit more like a "crazy quilt" than most

As Found: Lovely c. 1870s Set of Bone Game Pegs with Handwritten (in French) Solitaire Instructions and Score Cards hanging clip but these nails seem toI found these bone pegs just like this, stashed in one side of the wooden box included in photos, with the pale blue paper and handwritten scoring cards folded up and stuck in to the other. And they may just have sat there just like that since the 1870s. 1874 appears on the face of the scoring cards, which look to have been cut down from printed tickets for a lecture sermon by Charles Jean Marie Loyson (18271912), better known by his religious name