Dice game
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Boxwood [buxus sempervirens]
Measurements
37 mm (Height); 50 mm (Diameter)
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549443
Summary
Boxwood waisted bucket-shaped dice shaker. Base with moulded edge, painted with black band. Containing two bone gaming dice with black, sunken dots. Both dice stamped 'G R' with crown. Handwritten sticker, inscribed: '4 dice 3GR 2/6 D (note), Also - 4 dice and shaker 2/6 bought together 3 dice marked...'.
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
4 dice and shaker 2/6 bought together 3 dice marked... (sticker)