Description
Heading : Tunbridge Ware – A Cribbage Board
Date : c1885
Period : Victorian
Origin : Tunbridge Wells; England
Decoration : A narrow nine-square geometric band set in to the centre of the board. bounded by continuous and banded key-line stringing. and with the pale wood (probably holly) fields separated by further banded spills; the board sits on small turned feet and has a lidded compartment for pegs to the underside
Size : 23.6 x 6.2 x 1.9 cm
Condition : Excellent; little or no damage save for some tiny bumps and bruises to the top surface; tiles complete
Restoration : none
Weight : 99 grams
Notes : Cribbage boards were clearly relatively simple items to produce. and ideal for utilising smaller pieces of veneer and left-over stick-ware mosaics; as such. the ‘everyday’ versions such as this piece were rarely labelled. but it does utilise a geometric band which is all but identical to that used on a pin-hinged handkerchief box which can be readily identified as having come from the workshops of the Edmund Nye/Thomas Barton lineage.
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