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Miniature Painted Game Board with Checkers, America, 19th century.
18 November 2022, 10:00 EST
Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$255 inc. premium
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Miniature Painted Game Board with Checkers,
America, 19th century.
Two-part wood frame on iron wire hinges, painted Backgammon, Checkers, and Nine Men's Morris boards painted in black and white on orange ground, with sponge-decorated mitered frame, includes twenty-four 1 1/4-inch turned wooden game pieces; a turned wooden footed cup with marbled paint decoration, two dice, and a miniature six-board chest with wire hinges containing eleven brown and twelve black wooden game pieces, (split, stains, missing latch), 33cm wide, 15cm deep, 2cm high (13 3/8in wide, 6 3/4in deep, 1/2in high).
Two-part wood frame on iron wire hinges, painted Backgammon, Checkers, and Nine Men's Morris boards painted in black and white on orange ground, with sponge-decorated mitered frame, includes twenty-four 1 1/4-inch turned wooden game pieces; a turned wooden footed cup with marbled paint decoration, two dice, and a miniature six-board chest with wire hinges containing eleven brown and twelve black wooden game pieces, (split, stains, missing latch), 33cm wide, 15cm deep, 2cm high (13 3/8in wide, 6 3/4in deep, 1/2in high).
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Provenance
Bob Jessen and Jim Hohnwald, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.



