Game counter
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, glass and wood
Measurements
Box - 130 mm (width); 45 mm (height); 100 mm (depth), Each counter - 22 mm (diameter)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670750
Summary
A wooden rectangular box with a hinged lid with a glass top. The lid is broken and part of the lid comes away with a glass edge. On the front of the box is a metal closing mechanism. The box contains sixty one playing counters. Sixty of these are wood, green on one side and orange on the other. One counter is cardboard, red one side, blue the other. It is unclear whether this is the original box for the counters. Total number of items is 63.