A SET OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE DOMINOES
comprising a complete set of 28 tiles concluding with a double '6', contained within a decorated bone box with wooden base and sliding bone lid with cribbage lanes flanking a pierced family of deer -- 4½in. (11.5cm.) wide; together with a small scrimshaw-decorated whale's tooth incised with a three-quarter view of a sailing ship, the reverse inscribed Ship Swale Hull --3¼in. (8.3cm.) high
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The pierced hunting scene forming the lid of the first box is typical of prisoner work associated with the camp at Norman Cross near Peterborough.

Condition Report
Box in good order, old repairs to lid panel, visible where old glue has discoloured (see cat image); contents does not fill box, suggesting that whilst it is a complete set of tiles for a game up to a double-6, there may have either been more, or other elements such as cribbage pins and dice.

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