Tile game
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal and bone or ivory
Measurements
Each small domino - 45 mm (length); 22 mm (width), Each large domino - 54 mm (length); 27 mm (width), Tin lid - 225 mm (length); 178 mm (width), Base of tin - 242 mm (length); 168 mm (width), Tin - 77 mm (depth)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 669664
Summary
Two sets of dominoes of different sizes, 74 of the larger size and 29 of the smaller size. Each domino has a bone or ivory face with black dots on a black wooden back with three metal nails in each. One double six has broken dots and there is some green discolouring on a few. The dominoes are packed in a metal tin which had contained Radiance Devon Dainties Toffee. Total number of items is 105.