Antique Games Compendium

Antique Games CompendiumAn English Victorian Games Compendium, circa 1870 80 the hinged oak case mounted with decorative brass mounts and raised on bun feet, the fitted interior including: a set of bone dominoes, an ebony and boxwood Staunton chess set (with 'ebonised' knight horse heads), a set of turned 30 boxwood counters, three antique composite dice, scoring board, nicely turned wooden shaker, two packs of miniature cards for patience (dating from the 1930s), folding

retailer’s mark for Nixon & Son

kings with double pierced galleries and surmounted with Maltese crosses

with gilt tooling and decorative gilt borders

in sisham wood with elaborate ivory inlaid decoration and ebony banding

The same tinsel picture is also illustrated on the Royal Shakespeare Company website

and in the original box

bishops with gadrooned ‘caps’ and reeded cone finials

drawn sword in his right hand

three antique composite dice

Stock Reference: LH 1834

kings and queens with foliate crowns

two (original) wooden spools for the cotton threads