Title: Rare Three Player Brass Antique Cribbage Board Card Game
Shipping: $29.00
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Condition: Excellent
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Item ID: 771
Terrific old Brass Cribbage Game Board: Holes for the pegs also serve to put the player into position. There are no, pegs but we think they were made from solid polished brass. Would look great in a den or family room. **Our job is to find and target great art by collecting a vast array of contemporary, vintage, antique and collectible items from across the globe. Individually handcrafted, we breathe new life into these forgotten relics by giving back each piece it's unique story. We welcome dealers, galleries, and private collectors to register securely and buy with us.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage
Cribbage, or crib, is a card game for two players (with variants for other numbers of players) that involves forming combinations of cards for which points are scored, and playing those cards in an order which also gains points. Cribbage has several distinctive features: the cribbage board used for scorekeeping; the eponymous crib, or box (a separate hand counting for the dealer); two distinct scoring stages (the play and the show); and a unique scoring system (including points for groups of cards that total "fifteen"). The objective of the game is to score 121 points before the other player. Points are scored for card combinations such as pairs (plus triples and quadruples), runs, flushes and combinations of cards that add up to 15. A standard Cribbage board is a lesson in functional simplicity. Each player moves a pair of pegs up the outside and down the inside of their side of the board. The front peg shows the current score while the rear peg shows the previous score - a device that efficiently prevents mistakes and allows opponents to curtail any surreptious cheating. The holes are clearly divided into sets of five, a fact that allows large scores to be tallied immediately without counting and means that a quick glance is all that is needed to determine who is winning and by how much. A complete trip up and down the board is 60 holes but each end has a finishing hole into which the winning peg is placed. Thus, games scored using a Cribbage board are usually first to 61, 121 or 181.
