Title: Antique bone dice and lidded wooden barrel box Gambling game set
Shipping: $29.00
Artist: N/A
Period: 20th Century
History: N/A
Origin: N/A
Condition: Good
Item Date: 1920 to 1940
Item ID: 1280
Antique bone dice and lidded wooden barrel box Gambling game set Old antique traveling wooden barrel game cup and bone dice set. this has a wonderful finish. Comes with a combination of dice to play the game and comes with the wooden barrel lidded storage cup. Hand carved one of a kind large Ivory dice set. The set includes two dice of bone and it's wooden hand made cup. the condition is very good. It has a crack in the wood from time. This is top gambling memorabilia. This set is absolutely beautiful. They represent a time, a place and a culture, from obscure illegal Prohibition-era gambling halls to the casinos run by organized-crime figures. Antique gambling memorabilia can sell for thousands. collectors and guardians think of them self as the keepers of the history of gambling around the world. "The collector has a love of history because the tools come from institutions that may or may not any longer be in existence. "Many of these hard to find Gambling tools are just absolutely beautiful."
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice_game
Encyclopedia Description The dice are cubes with engraved numbers on each side. The engraved numbers are darker than the bright dice. Dice were used in one of the famous Egyptian local games, now known as backgammon. In this game, the players throw the dice on the backgammon in turns. This type of die is often found with a backgammon game consisting of two grooves used for holding the game disks so that each player would have a different colored set of disks. People have been playing dice games for a very long time. The very first dice were just sheep knucklebones, and you won if it landed on this side or that side. The oldest dice almost always have the one opposite the six, the three opposite the four, and the two opposite the five. This is true all over Europe, Asia, and Africa. The reason they have spots instead of written numbers is that people have been using dice since long before they invented a way to write numbers. Because they were small and not very valuable, archaeologists often find ancient dice.
