Code: 2820
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Jaques portable Backgammon, Chess & Draughts set
The red leather tube encloses a hinged tube containing the set of boxwood and ebony turned gaming pieces, which are plain to one side and the other illustrates the chess piece, a pair of dice also fit within the tube. The leather board rolls around the tube and the pair of dice shakers fit to either end.
The case marked: ‘PORTABLE B.C.D. Board - JAQUES PATENTEES LONDON’, patented by Jacques of London in 1858
English, circa 1860
