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Games For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Victorian
Asprey - Art Deco Engine Turned Butt Marker - Shooting Interest - Chester 1937
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Chester in 1937 by Asprey & Co. Ltd., this very stylish, Art Deco period, Sterling Silver Butt Marker, features engine turned decorati...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Games
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare Antique English Victorian Solid Brass Playing Card Press, Circa 1880-1890.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rare Antique English Victorian Solid Brass Playing Card Press, Circa 1880-1890.
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Brass
Antique Victorian Staunton Chess Pieces Set + Italian Marble Giltwood Chessboard
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this extremely rare original Victorian Staunton chess set with fine Italian marble giltwood chessboard
A trul...
Category
19th Century Italian Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Marble
Weighted Club Chess Set Kings Staunton Pattern No. 5 Boxed, Circa 1930
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good, high quality vintage English handmade, boxwood "weighted" chess set club game of 32 pieces, Staunton Pattern No. 5 all in its original box and retailed by The British Chess...
Category
Early 20th Century British Victorian Games
Materials
Hardwood
Small Black Leather Incased Box of Dominos Board Game, 28 pieces
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Small 28 Pieces Dominos Travel Size Board Game in Small Black Leather Incased Box.
Each piece measures 1.1 by 0.6 by 0.2 inches.
Category
Early 20th Century English Late Victorian Games
Materials
Leather, Plastic
Victorian Coromandel Games Compendium c1880
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Victorian coromandel games compendium
Date : c1880
Period : Victoria
Origin : England
Decoration : Contains: Chess, Draughts and Backgammon board, all chess pieces mounted ...
Category
1880s British Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Wood
Antique Thurston & Co Ltd London Snooker Billiards Scoreboard
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Antique Thurston & Co LTD London Snooker Billiards Scoreboard. This is a great example of English craftsmanship made of mahogany late Victorian. The slate is in wonderful condition. ...
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Slate
20th Century Victorian Solid Silver Domino Game, London, c.1900
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th Century Victorian solid silver domino game. Comes in a rectangular box with slide off lid, engraved Dominoes, containing bone carved domino pieces. Hallmarked Engl...
Category
20th Century English Victorian Games
Materials
Silver
19thC British Mahogany Cased Chess Set by Jacques & Son, c.1890
By John Jaques & Son Ltd.
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique late 19th Century Victorian mahogany cased chess set in its original leather case.
If the award winning Netflix series 'The Queens Gambit' did not tempt you into the world ...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Leather
Early 20th Century English Solitaire Game Board
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century English Solitaire Game Board
A nice example of an early 20th century English wooden solitaire game board with stone coloured playing balls. With a deep natural p...
Category
1920s British Early Victorian Vintage Games
Materials
Wood
Staunton Fierce Knight Weighted Club Chess Set 8.5cm Kings Jointed Box, 19th C
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good quality and complete English handmade hardwood "Weighted" Club Chess Set game of 32 pieces, in the Staunton Fierce Knight pattern, all within a jointed wood box ...
Category
Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Hardwood
Antique Victorian Chinese Black Lacquered and Mother of Pearl Inlaid Games Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Victorian Chinese export black lacquered wood and mother of pearl inlaid folding games box, backgammon, chess and checkers game.
The fine antique Chinese game board in black lacquered wood and mother-of-pearl inlays, decorated with architecture, chinoiserie scenes of animals, figures, boats and landscape on the outside, medallions of floral design on the inside.
Handcrafted Chinese black lacquered folding game set box with the exterior designed as chess board the interior as a backgammon board, both boards inlaid intricately carved and etched mother-of-pearl and abalone shell.
Dimensions: Length: 25” Width (folded): 11.25” Height: 3” Dimensions: unfolded: 22.75" x 27 x 1.5".
Circa 1920s, this great game set remains in good vintage condition.
There is no game pieces included just the box.
Collectible fine antique Asian game set...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Victorian Games
Materials
Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
Jaques London Victorian Faux Book Chessboard Staunton Pieces & Hardwood Clock
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original Victorian Antique Jaques of London faux leather folding book chessboard with the original Staunton Chess set dating to circa 1880, a travel chess set in the form of checkers pieces and lastly a Jacques of London Rosewood Chess clock...
Category
1880s English High Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Leather, Hardwood, Boxwood
ANTIQUE CIRCA 1920 ART DECO LEATHER CLAD CASE PLAYiNG CARDS SET BRASS CARDS TOp
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very nice and highly collectable Art Deco brown leather card case with brass cards plaque to the top an...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Games
Materials
Brass
19th Century Travelling Marble Solitaire Game with 33 Handmade Clay Marbles
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is an original and complete game of travelling marble solitaire from the 19th century with 33 old clay and stone marbles, circa 1870.
This two-piece board has a fairly small di...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Stone
Fine Vintage Large French Polished Santos Mahogany Satinwood Folding Chess Set
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A Very Substantial Decorative French Polished Well Grained Dark Santos Mahogany and Boxwood Folding Chess Set of outstanding quality, good weight and s...
Category
Late 20th Century British Victorian Games
Materials
Mahogany
Late 19th Century "9-Spot" Dominoe Game 55 Piece Set in Jointed Hardwood Box
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a rare and original '9 Spot' Dominoe game of 55 individual dominoes, coming complete with its jointed wooden box or case.
Dominoe sets are normally six-spot sets giving a to...
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Bone, Wood
19th Century Victorian Walnut & Brass Card Games Box, c.1890
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique late-19th Century Victorian walnut cased games compendium. The box itself is protected by a lock and key, the lid applied with decorative brass playing cards, surrounded by c...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Brass
A high Victorian burr walnut games box
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A high Victorian burr walnut games box, fitted for cribbage and bezique, also retaining its original ivory counters and beautiful gilt bronze cribbage board, with a brass plaque for ...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Walnut
Schachfigur König Aus 925 Sterling Silber, Vollmassiv, Im Retro-Design
Located in Lauterbach (Hessen), DE
Der exklusive König aus 925er Sterling Silber ist vollmassiv und im Retro-Design gehalten.
Mit einem Gewicht von 210 Gramm und seiner Höhe von 9,5 cm, ist der eindrucksvolle König i...
Category
2010s German Art Deco Games
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique "Corinthian 15" Wooden Table Top Bagatelle Board Game Set
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique bagatelle game set was made by the Corinthian Company of Finland in approximately 1920 and done in the period Art Deco style. The game b...
Category
Early 20th Century Finnish Art Deco Games
Materials
Steel
Handmade Cribbage Board with Brass Inlay and Magnetic Storage Drawers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A cribbage board made from brass and steel with intricate inlayed brass details.
A felt-lined drawer on one end holds a deck of cards while the two drawers on the opposite end hold p...
Category
2010s American Art Deco Games
Materials
Brass, Steel
Sammler-Spielfigur Aus 18 Karat Gold, Massiv, Punziert
Located in Lauterbach (Hessen), DE
Die elegante Spielfigur ist aus 18 Karat Gold gefertigt und vollmassiv.
Mit einem Gewicht von 10 Gramm, einer Höhe von 19 mm, einer Kopfbreite von 7 mm und einer Fußbreite von 8 m...
Category
2010s German Art Deco Games
Materials
Gold
19th Century Victorian Walnut Games Compendium, Cards & Board Games, circa 1890
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique late-19th century Victorian walnut cased games compendium, the interior comprising a chess set, draughts, dominoes, dice, cribbage board with markers, leather bound boards fo...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Leather, Walnut, Pine
Sammler Spielstein 18k Gold, Massiv, Punziert, Handgefertigt, Mit Zertifikat
Located in Lauterbach (Hessen), DE
Der imposante Spielstein ist aus 18 Karat Gold gefertigt und massiv.
Mit einem Gewicht von 35 Gramm und dem Durchmesser von 21,5 mm, sowie der Höhe von 6 mm, ist der eindrucksvoll...
Category
2010s German Art Deco Games
Materials
Gold
Antique Folk Art Painted Playing Card Games Box, 1930
Located in South Burlington, VT
From an old New England collection.
Unique find.
An attractive one-of-a-kind antique folk art circa 1930 period hand crafted, hand incised and hand painted playing card games b...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Games
Materials
Wood, Pine
Large Victorian Games Compendium in Hardwood Jointed Box with Many Games
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a high quality large Games Compendium, complete with many individual games in its original hardwood storage box with a hinged lid.
All the pieces are well made and complete.
The box is very well made of a jointed hardwood, possibly red walnut and is a high quality piece in its own right.
The box has developed a lovely color and patination from use and wear.
The exterior has a brass oval inset into its top, a brass twin lever lock and brass hinges. The interior is sectioned into different sub compartments by hardwood dividers.
Many different games are included within the compendium, including;
55 piece 9 - spot dominoes
Chess set - Very good high quality set, large pieces( Kings 8.7 cm high) and glass eyes to Knights,
Draughts with 24 x turned hardwood pieces
Backgammon with 30 x turned hardwood counters
2 sets of playing cards and two Bezique marker boards
Hardwood turned dice shaker and various different dice
tiddlywinks
Pick up sticks...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Metal, Brass
Sammler Spielfigur aus 18k Gold, Massiv, 31 Gramm, mit Etui, Designerstück
Located in Lauterbach (Hessen), DE
Die imposante Spielfigur mit dem Namen Victory ist aus 18 Karat Gold gefertigt und vollmassiv.
Mit einem Gewicht von 31 Gramm, einer Höhe von 25 mm, einer Kopfbreite von 12 mm und...
Category
2010s German Art Deco Games
Materials
Gold
19th Century Victorian Walnut Games Compendium, Cards & Board Games, C.1890
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique late-19th century Victorian walnut cased games compendium, the interior comprising a chess set, draughts, dominoes, dice, cribbage board with markers, leather bound boards for games, playing cards, droughts counters, a dice shaker...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Walnut
Dominostein aus Gold, 18K, massiv, 12 schwarze Diamanten, Made in Germany
Located in Lauterbach (Hessen), DE
Der imposante Dominostein ist aus 18 Karat Gold gefertigt, vollmassiv und mit 12 schwarzen Diamanten im Brillantschliff besetzt.
Mit einem Gesamtgewicht von 25 Gramm, einer Länge von...
Category
2010s German Art Deco Games
Materials
Gold
Dominostein Aus 18 Karat Gold, Massiv, Punziert, Mit Zertifikat
Located in Lauterbach (Hessen), DE
Der imposante Dominostein ist aus 18 Karat Gold gefertigt und vollmassiv.
Mit einem Gesamtgewicht von 25 Gramm, einer Länge von 29 mm, einer Breite von 14 mm und einer Tiefe von 4 mm...
Category
2010s German Art Deco Games
Materials
Gold
Würfel 18 Karat Gold, massiv, 16mm, handgefertigt, Zertifikat, Made in Germany
Located in Lauterbach (Hessen), DE
Der imposante Würfel ist aus 18 Karat Gold gefertigt und vollmassiv!
Mit einem Gewicht von 56 Gramm, den mittigen Diagonalmaßen von jeweils 16 mm pro Seite, ist der eindrucksvolle W...
Category
2010s German Art Deco Games
Materials
Gold
Würfel aus Gold, 18K, massiv, 21 schwarze Diamanten, Zertifikat, Made in Germany
Located in Lauterbach (Hessen), DE
Der luxuriöse Würfel ist aus 18 Karat Gold gefertigt, vollmassiv und 21 schwarze Diamanten im Brillantschliff sind eingefasst.
Mit einem Gewicht von 54 Gramm, den Diagonalmaßen von j...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Art Deco Games
Materials
Gold
Collection of Three Antique Scottish Carpet Rug Balls, Late 19th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Set of three scottish stoneware carpet rug balls.
Carpet balls in reds and green. A storied game dating back Centuries, Carpet Ball is similar to Bocci...
Category
Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Stoneware
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Era Walnut Chess Table, Circa 1885
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 19th century English Victorian era walnut chess table, circa 1885.
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Walnut
20th Century Italian Art Deco Football Table Game
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A truly striking table football table made in Italy around the middle of the 20th century. The strong Art Deco structure has a wonderful two-tone wood v...
Category
20th Century Italian Art Deco Games
Materials
Glass, Pine
Lovely circa 1880 Victorian Walnut Games Compendium Chess Horse Racing Dice
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this original Victorian games compendium with a complete suite of games.
This is a very well made and ...
Category
1880s European High Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Walnut
20th Century French Art Deco Football Table Game
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Beautiful French table football game (also known as a foosball table), early to mid 20th century. Painted and varnished wood and chromium plated and other metals, each side with four...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Games
Materials
Chrome
19thC Victorian Burr Walnut Games Compendium, Cards & Board Games, c.1890
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique late-19th century Victorian burr walnut cased games compendium, the interior comprising a chess set, draughts, dominoes, dice, cribbage board with markers, leather bound boards for games, playing cards, droughts counters, a dice shaker...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Walnut
Billiard Snooker or Life Pool Scoring Board London
By Cox & Yeman
Located in Radstock, GB
A beautiful mahogany framed scoring cabinet by Cox & Yeman circa 1890, featuring hand painted sliding panels ,revolving numbers and a central slate panel....
Category
1890s English Late Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Complete Games Compendium in Hardwood Jointed Box Many Games
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a high quality Games Compendium, complete with over 8 individual games, all in its original hardwood storage box with a hinged lid.
All the pieces are well made and complete.
The box is made of a jointed hardwood, possibly red walnut and is a high quality piece in its own right.
The box has developed a lovely color and patination from use and wear.
The box lid has two brass hinges and two brass loop catches to secure it closed. The interior is sectioned into different sub compartments by hardwood dividers.
Many different games are included within the compendium, including;
Horse racing game...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Brass
19th Century Reverse Painted Glass Games Board
Located in London, GB
19th Century reverse painted glass games board
We share what we love, and we love the decorative nature of this stunning English 19th Century reverse painted glass games board. With aged surface across the glass reflection and wooden frame. With a glance of old news paper...
Category
Late 19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Glass
Brass Circular Whist Score Markers
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Brass Game Score Counters.
A pair of Victorian brass, gun metal, whist game score markers. The top of the circular counter rotates to reveal the scor...
Category
1890s British Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Brass
Antique Billiard Marker or POOL Scorer Victorian Barcelona Spain
Located in Radstock, GB
An exquisite and exceptiionally rare Spanish billiard marker by Mayol Y Poch of Barcelona circa 1880.
Probably made from Madera wood.
A high end ...
Category
1880s Spanish Late Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Walnut
Clock Face Numerical Billiards Scorer Oak Cabinet with Rotating Dials
Located in Radstock, GB
An exceptionally rare and fine quality Billiards marker by Thurston of London circa 1860
Constructed from an excellent cut of English oak with a shaped pediment.
There are four...
Category
1860s English Early Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Oak
20th Century Swiss Art Deco Football Table Game
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A truly striking table football table made in Switzerland around the middle of the 20th century.
CONDITION
In great vintage condition - sympathetica...
Category
20th Century Swiss Art Deco Games
Materials
Glass, Wood, Fruitwood
20th Century Italian Art Deco Football Table Game
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A truly striking table football table made in Italy around the middle of the 20th century.
CONDITION
In Great Vintage Condition - sympathetically re...
Category
20th Century Italian Art Deco Games
Materials
Glass, Wood
19th Century Reverse Painted Game Board
Located in London, GB
19th century reverse painted game board
We are proud to offer a delightful untouched example of a 19th century reverse hand painted glass games ...
Category
1880s British Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Glass
19th Century Reverse Painted English Glass Games Board
Located in London, GB
19th Century Reverse Painted English Glass Games Board
We are proud to offer a highly decorative 19th Century reverse painted glass games board. Depicting some delightful floral ...
Category
19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Glass, Paint
Bally Triple Bell Console Slot Machine Game, 1946
By Bally
Located in Antwerp, BE
1946 Bally Manufacturing Co. - Triple bell - Console slot machine - one-armed Bandit.
This Art Deco vending machine that we sell was restorated as well on the inside as outside.
The outside looks great by his design and colors and with the majorettes - cheerleaders on the glass - it even has the looks of a jukebox. This large jackpot machine was repainted in the original colors and is an eyecatcher to place in your interior. The inside was left original and checked completely. Original technical scheme is even still inside. The wooden frame is also still in great condition.
This Art Deco slot machine is amended for use in Europe ( 220 -240 V )
It can be used with 0.05 + 0.10 + 0.20 eurocents.
At a winning fruit combination he pays out ! So hopefully you win the jackpot !
This machine is on wheels so easy to move.
All the original keys are included.
Electricity has been adjusted to 220 - 240 Volt.
This vintage slot machine...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Games
Materials
Metal
Smart Antique Shagreen Gaming Counter / Poker Chip Box, c.1920
Located in Bath, GB
A wonderful antique English gaming counter box dating to the 1920's / 1930's.
The box has a secret opening mechanism; the lid is slid to the left which ...
Category
1920s European Art Deco Vintage Games
Materials
Shagreen
Scottish Lignum Vitae Carpet/Lawn Ball
Located in Pasadena, CA
This a good example of a 19th century Scottish Lignum Vitae carpet or lawn ball. Lignum Vitae is one of the hardest woods and has always been the wood of choice for carpet, lawn and ...
Category
Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Iron
Collection of Ten Antique Carpet Balls
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Ten carpet balls crafted in stoneware, decorated and glazed in several different colors and designs including a white cue ball.
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Stoneware
19th Century Walnut Games Compendium
Located in London, GB
The ‘Royal Cabinet of Games’ by Charles Henry, 22 King Street, Manchester, constructed in figured walnut with coromandel edging, enclosing various games including chess, backgammon &...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Miniature Bagatelle Board
Located in London, GB
An unusual miniature mahogany Billiard Bagatelle board, having green baize surface with inset numbered cups flanked by boxwood & ebony score peg-holder...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Victorian Pool Scoreboard and 2 Prints Palmer & Sons-Joe Davis
Located in London, GB
This is an excellent antique mahogany pool scoreboard by Palmer & Sons, London late 19th century in date.
This is one of the best examples of a pool scoreboard, with nine slides and a moulded pediment above the maker's label:
PALMER & SONS, 111, HIGH STREET, BORO', LONDON
Together with two prints in oak frames,
THE RULES OF POOL
&
THE RULES OF PYRAMID POOL,
Burroughes & Watts, London.
Provenance:
Sotheby's Belgravia sale on 6th December 1979 of
World Champion Billiards/Snooker player 'Joe Davis'
This is a fun piece which is sure to attract a lot of attention from your guests and be a welcome addition to any games room..
THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION.
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 65 x width 44 x depth 9 - scoreboard
Height 58 x width 41 x depth 2.5 - print with frame
Dimensions in inches:
Height 25.6 x width 17.3 x depth 3.5 - scoreboard
Height 22.8 x width 16.1 x depth 1.0 - print with frame
Burroughes & Watts, London -
firm, which would become one of the most famous of the English billiard table manufacturers, was founded in 1836 by William Burroughes in partnership with F. Watts. William had learnt his trade with Thurston's, and set up his new business at 19 Soho Square, London. He brought with him from Thurston's all the latest innovations for billiard tables, immediately starting to produce models with rubber cushions and slate beds. Even though the natural rubber cushions would give extremes of elasticity according to temperature, and the slates where only an inch thick, this was to be the future of billiard tables, and Burroughes and Watts were at the forefront from the very beginning.
They were quickly recognised as a world-class manufacturer and received a prize medal for a table entered for the Great Exhibition of 1851, with a similar award being received at the subsequent London Exhibition of 1862.
In 1860 they were making a modest 150 full-sized tables a year, but by the end of this decade production had doubled. In 1869 they followed the lead of Thurston's and improved their cushions with "vulcanised" rubber, which were designed to minimise the effect of temperature variations.
The business now looked for expansion away from London, and in the early 1870's they opened up branches in Dublin and Belfast. At this time most tables in Ireland were made with cast iron frames, and the wooden framed Burroughes & Watts tables proved popular with the locals.
In 1873 the company secured a major contract for billiard tables to "Her Majesty's War Department and Admiralty" and around the same time received the warrant of Queen Victorian and Edward, Prince of Wales.
The following year, the champion, William Cook...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Mahogany, Oak
Rare Napoleonic POW Dominos Casket
Located in London, GB
Rare Napoleonic POW dominos casket
We are proud to offer a rare example of a late 19th century Napoleonic prisoner of war (POW) hand carved set of domi...
Category
1880s British Early Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Bone
Scottish Lignum Vitae Carpet/Lawn Ball II
Located in Pasadena, CA
This a good example of a 19th century Scottish Lignum vitae carpet or lawn ball. Lignum Vitae is one of the hardest woods and has always been the wood of choice for carpet, lawn and bocce balls. The ball is detailed with the inlaid engraved bone initials "SA" at one side and a bone circle a the other. The stand can be exchanged for a shorter stand.
Category
Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Games
Materials
Iron
Antique, New and Vintage Games
There’s no better way to wind down after a week of work than with a well-designed antique, new or vintage game.
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Table games such as pool, foosball and Ping-Pong — which is getting a makeover in the hands of today’s designers — can transform your already winning game room, while integrating games or games tables in any corner of your home can support your effort to make every bit of your space more warm and inviting. Browse a vast collection of antique, new and vintage games today on 1stDibs.