"1607 Backgammon board" Topic
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Tango01  | 02 Dec 2012 9:47 p.m. PST |
Incredible beautifull.
The game board is made of opaque white amber and translucent red amber on a wood chassis with an ebony superstructure, carved Roman-style portrait busts and chased silver accents. There's a Nine Men's Morris board on one side, a chess board on the other, and it opens up to reveal a diptych backgammon board. Inside it holds 14 game pieces of cream amber, with a white amber profile in the center overlaid with translucent red amber, and 14 pieces of translucent orange amber. The profiles are of all the kings of England from William the Conqueror to James I.
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Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| MajorB | 03 Dec 2012 2:37 a.m. PST |
Not only backgammon, but chess/draughts and nine-mens-morris too! I struggle to see what this has to do with miniatures, but regardless of that it is certainly a beautiful game board. |
| MajorB | 03 Dec 2012 2:38 a.m. PST |
Hmm, there's a thought, would the Portable Wargame concept work on a nine-mens-morris board? |
| magister equitum | 03 Dec 2012 10:37 a.m. PST |
the second photo is another board, very similar perhaps the same author |
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