A late Victorian plated brass mounted coromandel games compendium
of rectangular form with strapwork style mounts, the lid opening to reveal a fitted interior with folding gilt tooled leather chess and backgammon board and various lift out trays containing a cribbage board, a part set of bone and ebony dominoes, a part set of red stained and natural counters, two Bezique markers, a part set of painted cast lead racing horse figures and hedge/fence jumps and a pair of leather dice shakers, the hinged front fitted a pegged red stained and natural bone thirty two piece chess set, some damages and losses, the king: 5.5cm high, the pawn: 3.25cm high, the box, 17cm high, 32cm wide, 21cm deep
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of rectangular form with strapwork style mounts, the lid opening to reveal a fitted interior with folding gilt tooled leather chess and backgammon board and various lift out trays containing a cribbage board, a part set of bone and ebony dominoes, a part set of red stained and natural counters, two Bezique markers, a part set of painted cast lead racing horse figures and hedge/fence jumps and a pair of leather dice shakers, the hinged front fitted a pegged red stained and natural bone thirty two piece chess set, some damages and losses, the king: 5.5cm high, the pawn: 3.25cm high, the box, 17cm high, 32cm wide, 21cm deep