cribbage box; playing cards; counters; dividers (woodworking)

Complete pack of playing cards in box that doubles as a cribbage board. The playing cards have decorative backs including a shield containing a book and three crowns at the centre, the crest for the University of Oxford. The front has card suits. The wooden box has a marquetry design on the exterior with holes for the two counters. The two counters are made of bone, with one white and one stained with a red-pink pigment. The counters are kept in a little compartment in the box that is closed with a plain, wooden divider.
label: yellow with black type.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
26.70
Date
1865 - 1870
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; paper; pigment; bone; metal
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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