Tunbridge Ware Hinged Cribbage Board and Card Box with Berlin Wool-work Inlaid Mosaic c1885

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Product Code:22060203

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Heading : Tunbridge Ware – A Hinged Cribbage Board and Card Box with Berlin Wool-work Inlaid Mosaic
Date : c1890
Period : Victorian
Origin : Tunbridge Wells; England
Decoration : A central panel of Berlin Wool-work flowers. set inside continuous and banded keyline stringing; the drilled playing area placed in golden satinwood or holly veneer. with each field of ten holes separated by a small inlaid ‘dividing line’; rosewood veneer to the remainder of the box; internally – a small tray for the pegs. with the card-holding wells lined with what may be the original paper; the hinged. folding box is held closed with a small ‘hook and eye’ latch.
Size : 25.3 x 8.0 x 2.5 cm when open flat
Condition : Excellent; sound and clean other than some minimal red staining to one area which has percolated through the holes and discoloured the lining paper – as if some red wine or port was spilled on the board during some heated competition at one point; as is often the case with these items there are also some tiny ‘hole to hole’ splits in the veneers. but all the component parts are firmly seated in place.
Restoration : None
Weight :  148 grams 

Note : Cribbage boards were made by several different manufacturers over a long period. and certain identification is little more than conjecture or divination; with this example. however. the inlaid dividing lines between the fields – and the general formation – is remarkably similar to a two-piece bezique box. which was labelled for Thomas Barton (late Nye); it would be far from unreasonable to attribute this piece to the same source.

 

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Weight250 g

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