Early 1900s Games

A charming set of late Victorian dominoes or dominos, complete with a handsome polished wooden storage box with a sliding lid. Dating to around 1900, the set is better than many, ...

19th century teaching alphabets We share what we love, and we love this late 19th Century assortment of hand-crafted bone alphabets, used as a teaching aid at some point, encased in a delightful period box. This assortment is made up of 180 alphabets, each square is double sided with upper- and lower-case letters. Size of inches box: H 3.5” x W 8.5” x D 6” squares H 0.5” x W 0.4” x D 0.2” Units: 180 pieces in total Condition: Aged Origin: United Kingdom Age: 1890 - 1910 Completely solid in structure and form, Natural aging across all surfaces. Faded lettering. The wooden box shows a deep patina and natural aging. The box is without a key. All the items that we sell at The House of...

A charming set of late Victorian dominoes or dominos, complete with a handsome polished wooden storage box with a sliding lid. Dating to around 1900, the set is better than most w...

Wooden abacus, 1900s Table abacus in turned wood with horizontal metal rods and wooden spheres, made in the early twentieth century. Good condition, evident defects in the photos...

This is a very good, high quality antique English handmade hardwood "weighted" chess set game of 32 pieces, boxed and retailed by K & C of London, made in ...

Vintage side casting fishing reel By Mulloch Of Perth. A good 3¼" sidecasting salmon fishing reel by Malloch of Perth. Constructed from brass, designed to exchange the drum by remov...

A handsome large English chess board consisting of two separate boards, one each side, one for Chess or Draughts, the other for French Draughts or Checkers (Jeu de Dames) which consi...

Orme & Sons Billiard scoreboard. A nice combined billiards and life pool scoreboard made of oak by Orme & Sons, Manchester. The scorer comprised of two white rollers with black painted numbers, 0 to 20 / 20 to 40 / 40 to 60 / 60 to 80 / 80 to 100, with two wooden slides to mark your score, one spot and one plain. The Life Pool board consists of 10 slides with coloured discs, each colour representing the player's cue ball and the order of play. The colours being white, red, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, spot white, spot red, spot yellow. When each slide is pulled back 3 discs are revealed, one for each life of the player. In the middle of the scoreboard there is a slate board...

Antique Auchterlonie Putter, St Andrews. A very nice socket head putter by Auchterlonie of St Andrews. The golf club has a lead weight to the rear, traditional horn slip along the leading edge of the sole, the polished wooden head stamped 'Auchterlonie', the original hickory shaft with suede leather grip. This is a very nice example of a golf club from the 1900's in excellent condition. Approximate head size:- a = 7cm b = 2.6cm c = 4.4cm Auchterlonie was a family firm in St Andrews making hand crafted wooden golf clubs...

The 'Radian' Wooden Framed Lawn Tennis Racket. A good wooden framed tennis racket called The 'Radian'. The concave throat with embossed name in gilt 'Radian', on the side of the fis...

Large antique English skittles/lawn bowling game set. Set includes 11 pins 18.5” by 6”, 2 big balls 10” diameter and 4 small 5" diameter.

Antique game chest comes with 5 different games with on the outside a Chest board, on the inside off the box a complete backgammon set, Domino set in the original wooden box, 2 set of cards, very nice leather antique dice...