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Inspired by the Mary Rose gaming cask lid, 81A1995. Board: oak, carved and the lines pigmented. Pieces are Mountain ash painted with either lamp black or iron red pigment in oil. Supplied with ten playing pieces in each colour and a hand-sewn linen bag to store the pieces in.
A$80, lead time 6 weeks. I can also do the Daldøs board from the cask lid on the reverse of the board, or make an interpretation of the cask lid - POA.
Reference: Gardiner, J., Allen, M.J., Alburger, M.A. and others. (2005). Before the Mast – Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose (Archaeology of the Mary Rose Volume 4). United Kingdom, Portsmouth: The Mary Rose Trust.
Grunfeld, F. V. (1975). Games of the World. United States, Saint Louis: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. 59–61.
This board is to be featured in our forthcoming Making Historical Reproductions - Mary Rose Volume 1.
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Inspired by a board in the Bavarian National Museum (museum number R 94). One side features numbers and the other dice spots. Frame and panel board, painted with lamp black, chalk white and rose madder lake pigments.
A$140, lead time 8 weeks.
References: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. (n.d.). Spielkasten für Glückshaus, Schach und Trick-Track. www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de/sammlung/00033166
Grunfeld, F. V. (1975). Games of the World. United States, Saint Louis: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Sands Holt, M. (2025, March 14). History of Glückhaus-The Game of Sevens. The Rampant Strawberry Inn — A place for medieval games and how to play them. [blog post]. therampantstrawberry.blogspot.com/2025/03/history-of-gluckhaus-game-of-sevens.html
This board is to be featured in our forthcoming Making Historical Reproductions - Fifteenth Century Volume 1.
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This set of Roman period dice have the dot/circles painted with lamp black and rose madder lake pigments in egg binder.
The Roman sets have opposing faces adding up to seven, other variations are possible for other periods and cultures.
Early modern dice have the same opposing sum, but with single dots instead. Dice are the same price regardless of size because they require the same amount of work. Each die is tested over one hundred times to ensure there is no bias.
A$15, lead time 6 weeks.
Reference: Egan, G. (1997). Dice. Finds Research Group Datasheet 23. United Kingdom, Hereford: The Finds Research Group.
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