Anyone for Dominoes?
Dominoes - cousins of playing cards - originated in China in the 1300s and represent one of the oldest tools for game play. From professional domino game competition to setting them up and then knocking them over, dominoes allow for a variety of games, as well as tests of skill and patience, and most importantly, fun!
This rather worn French dominoes set that has come into my possession has earned each and every chip, dint and scratch as it was made by hand in the late Eighteenth or very early Nineteenth Century. The black base layer is made of ebonised wood, whilst the top, white pieces, are ivory - now yellowed with age - with the circular grooves inked in black paint. The two layers are affixed together with a silver rivet in the centre of each piece.
I can imagine two Regency ladies, characters from a Jane Austen novel playing dominoes to test each other's skills, patience and strategy! Can't you?
Anyone for Dominoes?
Dominoes - cousins of playing cards - originated in China in the 1300s and represent one of the oldest tools for game play. From professional domino game competition to setting them up and then knocking them over, dominoes allow for a variety of games, as well as tests of skill and patience, and most importantly, fun!
This rather worn French dominoes set that has come into my possession has earned each and every chip, dint and scratch as it was made by hand in the late Eighteenth or very early Nineteenth Century. The black base layer is made of ebonised wood, whilst the top, white pieces, are ivory - now yellowed with age - with the circular grooves inked in black paint. The two layers are affixed together with a silver rivet in the centre of each piece.
I can imagine two Regency ladies, characters from a Jane Austen novel playing dominoes to test each other's skills, patience and strategy! Can't you?