Game counter
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mother-of-pearl, cardboard, wood and bone or ivory
Measurements
Die - 8 mm (length); 8 mm (width), Upright counter - 17 mm (height), Each counter (min) - 17 mm (diameter), Each counter (max) - 33 mm (diameter)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666088
Summary
A dice and assorted playing counters of different materials, colours and sizes. There are: six made of bone or ivory rings; one made of mother of pearl; one made of light green cardboard; one is a turned upright counter; seven large circular bone or ivory counters; ten turned wooden counters, seven are black and three are yellow; three small turned wooden counters of which one is yellow, one pink and one black; nine red counters; ten pink counters and 45 white bone or ivory counters. Total number of items is 95.