Chinese Export Lacquer Games Box with Mother of Pearl Pieces
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Our Chinese export games box is the finest example we have seen in our twenty years in business. 14 7/8 by 12 12 by 3 7/8 inches. It includes 12 trays including eight depicting face cards, three with gilt and black lacquered landscape scenes, and one depicting a gentleman with the word "Game", plus four boxes with lids, some containing original English playing cards by Goodal and Son of London, dating from the 1880s, and box containing a complete set of scoring chips, magnificently carved from mother-of-pearl in three shapes. Chips and the lid marked with a monogram in script, TW (or FW?) with unicorn above.
Included are handwritten notes on games and handwritten game pieces on paper.
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West New York, New Jersey
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