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£145
(ID: 2)

A 19th Century Barleycorn Chess Set (King 2.5" high. 6cms) with a mahogany hinged box, together with a similar period inlaid wooden board measuring 10.5" (25.5cms. The mahogany lipped board has squares or rosewood and probably birch. ...

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(ID: 10538)

Another selection of Cribbage boards and boxes In the foreground a VICTORIAN FAUX MARBLE board Actually slate and it weighs a lot! Most people have been fooled it's so good. Underneath that a fine example of a ROSEWOOD VENEERED WITH BONE INLAID board on a mahogany base. The underside having a swing lid compartment for four large, unusual bone pegs. Left of Centre is a MAHOGANY INLAID H...

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(ID: 10537)

Various quality Cribbage scoring boards. A Mauchlin ware board with the image of Alexandra Palace to the front with brass pegs which live in the brass swing-lidded holes to either end. Two boxes: One with Sedili work to the lif-off lid, the other, hinged so that it opens out flat as a board (wooden slide compartment holding pegs to one end). Advantage to these is that they can accommoda...

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(ID: 10546)

A melange of games and collectors' items. Beautiful1960s folding, leather BACKGAMMON SET, BOTTLE DICE, SPINNING AND HUMMING & WHIPPING TOPS, DOMINOES, GAMING CHIPS, TREEN AND WOODEN DICE CUPS etc., etc., etc. Prices on enquiry. ...

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(ID: 10547)

A huge variety of CHESS. Jaques, Staunton pattern, Barlycorn pattern, St. Georges pattern. Travelling sets - In Statu Quo, Whittington, Railway. Also the Jaques 19th Century BCD which is a combination of backgammon, chess and draughts all contained in a cleverly designed red-leather tube. Wooden and leather boars. Sold separately and also together with certain sets. Everything in these pi...

£375
(ID: 10490)

Beautiful, slim, inlaid wooden backgammon board. Made by a home-counties cabinet-maker in the mid 1990s. The outside is veneered in flame mahogany. The mahogany playing surface is inlaid with rose, satin, box and ebony. The 32 hand-turned wooden playing pieces are included, but not shown here....

£150
(ID: 1)

Thispretty Staunton pattern boxwood and ebonised set is unweighed and has a King size of 2.9" (7.5cms) high. The mellow colour and figured grain of the boxwood is very attractive and as with all boxwood which was not treated immediately after felling, there are some small spots on a few of the pieces from the fungal disease which would have affected the tree, but nothing to detract from it. Ther...