Historic Games online

Auction 2903T
May 12, 2016 10AM
through
May 20, 2016 10AM

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May 17, 12PM–5PM
May 18, 10AM–7PM

Skinner is pleased to offer a private collection of Historic games and gameboards in a timed online auction. Highlighting the sale are engraved and personalized boards in brass and inlaid wood from the 18th century, as well as intricately inlaid boards and board boxes from the first half of the 19th century, including Tunbridgeware examples. There are a half dozen boards and boxes made in whalebone by French prisoners-of-war around 1800 to 1815, and several carved scrimshaw-decorated boards made by North American Eskimo tribes. And there are nine 19th century games tables, many with compartmented drawers and folding tops permitting the play not just of cribbage but of checkers, chess, and backgammon, too.

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