Good quality vintage backgammon set by Fortnum & Mason of Piccadilly, with faux snakeskin outer case and counter tray, impressed mark, 46cm wideThe dimensions of the board when fully opened are approximatley 52cm (not including the handle) x 45.5cm.Each counter measures 3.5cm diamater and weighs approximately 8 grams. 30 checkers in total
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An inlaid wooden backgammon set, with counter and cups in a quarter veneered burr walnut case, 48.5cm wide60cm long3.5cm deepCondition ReportMarkings and scratches to the outer surface. Corners with knocks and some chipping. Counter all present with two cups and a number die and 2 more pairs of dice. Minor markings to the interior surface.
A mahogany games compendium box, 19th century, the rectangular lid enclosing horse racing figures, chess and draughts pieces, instructions booklet, etc10 x 44 x 25cmOne black pawn is missing. Backgammon is included. There are 15 draught pieces of each colour, however they are not all of the same form. There are a full 28 dominoes. There is an additional black draught piece for the black pawn which is missing.
A RARE IRISH KILLARNEY ARBUTUS AND YEW WOOD GAMES TABLE CIRCA 1830-1840 With radial veneered reversible drop in top with chessboard over, single drawer with backgammon board, set of turned playing pieces, the drawer top marked "Killarney Lake Arbutus" 76cm high, 67.5cm diameter Condition Report: Overall there are some scratches, marks, chips, cracks and abrasions consistent with age and use.There is some movement to the top and drawer area, so that the drawer is not quite flush with the frieze; there are some veneer losses and replacements; some fading; there is no key for the drawer lock.A striking and unusual table.Please see all the additional condition report photographs through the link on the condition report email as a visual reference of condition - they are a vital part of this report. Condition Report Disclaimer
Y A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD GAMES OR READING TABLE CIRCA 1825 The ratcheted height adjustable writing surface with a removable rest, sliding to reveal a removable gilt tooled leather backgammon board above further sunken storage. False drawers to one side and two blind drawers to each end 73.5cm high, 73cm wide, 42cm deep
Collection of miscellaneous items to include amber coloured Bakelite tidy, Bakelite cigarette case, Bakelite house maid call, desk pen holder, ebony and silver dressing table set, Royal Doulton cigarette box and ashtray set with hunting scene, soapstone backgammon counters, incomplete soapstone chess set etc.
A Late XIX Century Folding Chess/Backgammon Board, with marquetry inlaid borders of leaves and shamrocks, the interior with chess pieces and counters, 25.5 x 50cm (closed).When opened up the base doesn't fit flat and has some surface scratches to both sides and some cracks to wood. Both black horses with glue repair others all playworn. Wearer commensurate commensurate with age.
* Games. A varied collection of games, Victorian and later, approximately 16 games, including: Schimmell or the Bell and Hammer, complete with instructions, leather shaker and gavel in original box; A Race to the Gold Diggings, circa 1855, with six painted metal ship counters, instructions and linen backed game sheet; Fox Hunting board game with instructions and six painted metal mounted horses (some with loss); three board games with squares and backgammon markings; a chest set with red and white bone figures contained in folding wooden box; Reversi with rules and introduction cards, invented by T.W. Mollett; two small boxes containing counters; two boxes full of wooden building blocks; small wooden hand racket with leather handle; a facsimile hornbook with the effigy of Charles II on horseback to verso; The Entertaining History of Little Goody Goosecap (lacking pages 51-58); and 5 decks of playing cards, some wear, various sizesQTY: (1 box)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Quaker antiquary Martha Spriggs (1777-1866), Worcester, by family descent.
* Rule books for card games. A collection of approximately 100 rules booklets, mostly 20th century, many for card games such as whist, euchre, bezique, bridge, khanhoo, etc., some for games such as backgammon, mah jong, cricket, lacrosse, etc, by makers including Goodall (1889-circa 1920), Thomas De La Rue (1865-circa 1931), Hunt & Sons (1838), J. Reynolds & Sons, B.P. Grimaud (including one advertising Dubonnet, with original glassine outer sleeve), Waddington, The International Card Co., W.B. Tattersall (The Sports Trader Series), etc., original printed wrappers, some soiling, occasional stains or wear (mainly to some spines), also a few larget rules booklets, including a 'Hoyle's Improved Miniature Edition of the Rules for playing Fashionable Games', 'The Rules of the game of Shove-Ha'Penny', 1931, 'The Game of Dashavtar Ganjifa', by Sawantwadi Lacquerwares, all booklets inserted in pockets of clear plastic album sleeves (none examined out of sleeves), contained in a ring binder (35.5 x 38 cm), together with: a collection of approximately 233 scoring (tally) cards and 29 counters/markers, 20th century, makers include Thomas De La Rue, Goodall, Dennis Productions (Dainty series), Premier, Castell, Delgado, etc., advertising scoring cards and markers include those for: Mitchells & Butlers Export Pale Ale, Carlsberg, Aitken's Falkirk Ales, Bovril, Player's Navy Cut Tobaccos and Cigarettes, Gallaher's de luxe Cigarettes, Will's Woodbine Cigarettes, Ogden's Robin Cigarettes, Buchanan's Black & White Scotch Whisky, etc., all inserted in pockets of clear plastic album sleeves (none examined out of sleeves), contained in a ring binder (35.5 x 38 cm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.
A 19th century Irish Killarney marquetry and yew games table, with hinged rectangular top decorated with central ruined abbey inlaid image surrounded by geometric marquetry inlay and foliate decoration, opening out to reveal two further tops, one with chess board surrounded by shamrocks and thistles and foliage, other with backgammon board and central cribbage board with shamrock design and foliate surround, with hollow interior for games pieces, side inlaid with flowers and foliage with banding, upon an angular bulbous stem also decorated with shamrocks and foliage, on a four clawed footed base with inlaid leaf design, overall approx. 75.5cm high x 60.3cm wide x 39.7cm deep, when folded out approx. 69cm wide x 60.3cm deep. Further details: large split and damage to centre of main top seen when both unfolded and folded; impact damage to top and games boards inside with some holes or splits, some chips and minor missing inlaid pieces; splits seen inside empty space inside; splits, cracks and loss to side with panels with loss and damage commensurate with age; pieces lifting and loss to parts of sides and rims of top and side; overall has been restored as well; few chips or loss to claws on feet and overall wear.
[Montmort, Pierre Rémond de]. Essay d'Analyse sur les Jeux de Hazard, 1st edition, 1st issue, Paris: Jacque Quillau, 1708, 24, 189, [3] pp., engraved vignette on title, three engraved headpieces showing gambling scenes, and two engraved figures in text showing a backgammon board, errata to final leaf verso, later ink ownership inscription at foot of title, ‘Ex libris Philippi-Laurentii [?]Zaumit Medicorii Doctoris de Jena Zurici’, author’s name added at end of preliminary leaves, possibly in the same hand, occasional damp-staining and browning, heavily wormed throughout with tracks affecting all four margins, rarely touching text except for one vertical track affecting the first seven lines of the final three leaves and mostly with the loss of one letter per line, inner hinges weak and a few leaves slightly sprung, marbled endpapers, edges stained red, contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine, some wear to extremities and loss at head of spine and near foot of upper joint, 4to (254 x 180 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Tomash & Williams M121. The rare first edition, first issue of the first book on probability. Published anonymously with uncorrected text and without the three folding plates of the second issue of the same year. Based on the problems set forth by Huygens in his famous treatise De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae (1657), this book greatly influenced the work of Nicolaus Bernoulli, with whom Montmort corresponded, as well as that of Abraham de Moivre. Though there are significant marginal worm tracks to this copy, remarkably, and against all probability, only a handful of words on the last three leaves are affected, with no loss of sense.
A collection of various sundry decorative items including a late Victorian tooled and gilded leather stationery box in the manner of Vickery opening to reveal a blue silk lined three section interior 29 cm wide x 15 cm deep x 20.5 cm high, a tooled and gilded green leather covered draughts and backgammon board with parquetry inlaid interior, a modern solitaire board, a modern leatherette covered games compendium, leather covered cigarette box and a Huntley & Palmers "Book" biscuit tin by H.B. & S Ltd of Reading together with a Nyaminyami historical walking stick by Colen of Nyaminyami Curios together with certificate dated 12.5.98 (6)
A 19th century Irish Killarney marquetry and mahogany games table, with hinged rectangular top decorated with a central ruined abbey scene and four other marquetry inlaid oval scenes of houses, a bridge and a hut, all surrounded by inlaid foliage with acorns, with geometric design also, opening out to reveal two tops, one with a chess board surrounded by foliage and acorns with two oval inlaid scenes of ruins, other with backgammon board and central cribbage board decorated with shamrocks and thistles again surrounded by foliage and leaf decoration, edge with geometric inlay, with empty inside for games pieces, side panels decorated with inlaid flowers and leaves with geometric banding, upon four thin legs, overall approx. 77.5cm high x 60cm wide x 39.5cm deep, when folded out approx. 78.8cm wide x 59.5cm. Further details: long split and some cracking to chess board; backgammon board ahs some loss, cracking and lifting, with an area of impact damage; damage and splits to corners and side inlay; impact damage to lower right corner of main top when not folded, with other splits or cracking and overall scratches and wear, with minor damage to other areas; few splits or damage to side panels or front panel, overall has been restored in past as well, wear commensurate with age.
19th Century inlaid chess and backgammon board with folding action, together with a quantity of boxed chess pieces, dominoes, solitaire etc.Height of the king is 7.5cm. Size of folding board is 46 x 38cm, squares are 4.5cm square. Whittington chess set is 19cm square and is missing 1 red pawn, 1 white bishop and 4 white pawns.
klassizistischer Spieltisch, Nussbaum, sowie diverse Edelhölzer, intarsiert, zweischübige Zarge, Deckplatte bestehend aus einem Lacktablett, Metall, Blumendekor, einer Auflage mit Backgammon (?) Spiel, darin eine Einlage mit Schach und Dame Spiel, beigegeben diverse Spielsteine, H 75, B 69, T 52, deutsch, um 1790
A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER BACKGAMMON SET, LATE 19TH CENTURY. Decorated in black and gold lacquer with panels of seated figures of boys and scholars within borders of scrolling flowers, key fret and figures in gardens of pavilions. Together with thirty bone counters, two dice with two shakers. Size when closed 49cm x 25cm x 10cm.Provenance: Private collection in Wiltshire acquired in the Far East circa 1905, thence by descent. Slight loss to lacquer at one corner with minor wear to edges.
A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER FOLDING GAMES BOARD, QING DYNASTY, MID 19TH CENTURY the chessboard exterior with gilt band enclosing cartouches of flowers and antiques reserved on a floral ground, the sides of the board with cartouches enclosing figures in landscapes, the interior decorated in gilt to represent a backgammon board, board open 49 by 49.5cm清:中国外销漆制折叠式棋盘,19世纪中期The games board is in good overall condition with the exception of a circa 1cm triangular lacquer flake to the rim, minor nibbles to the edges of the rims and light scratches and rubbing to the chessboard area commensurate with age and use.
Board games.- English Sports, folding chess and backgammon board, bookform board in the shape of two books, with red and black calf onlaid to form the chess board, opening to reveal a backgammon boards in cream, red and black calf with gilt decoration, some areas of interior and exterior nibbled, red calf spine labels titled in gilt, rubbed and worn, folio, [nineteenth century].
A studio pottery vase, incited with a ferocious dragon and painted in polychrome on a mottled green ground, 41.5cm high; another a Portuguese ceramic vase and cover, decorated in the Imari taste, 32cm high; others, a hardwood double sided chess/backgammon set; a pair of woollen wall hangings (5)
A METAMORPHIC GAMES TABLE FROM THE S.V. FAVELL, 1895the removable top revealing a backgammon compartment with central bar, on turned tapering legs -- 29 x 35½ 1/2 x 18in. (73.5 x 90 x 46cm.)Acquired by the present owner in Helsinki from a descendant of the Director of the yard where it was scrapped in 1934.
William IV rosewood and coromandel crossbanded lyre games table, with adjustable book rest top and side drawer, leather inset backgammon playing surface below on lyre supports and castors, 51cm wide x 40cm deep x 72cm high. Provenance: Melvyn Lipitch Antiques, London, purchased 1978 for £950Good original condition, some slight lifting to crossbanding to top and crack to top. Piece veneer missing from one leg at foot
A Regency rosewood and brass inlaid games table, with a hinged top, lacking rest, pulling out to reveal a backgammon board, the underside with a chess board, the demi lune side compartments, hinged, on lyre shaped supports, on brass feet and castors, 70cm wide 40.5cm deep72cm highCondition ReportSome colour change. Restoration and repolished.

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