Turned Games

Beautiful Birch box with associated chess pieces in Karl-Johan (Swedish Empire), 1830s. Provenance: Noble family Ankarcrona. Complete with all chess pieces. Minor damage to the pa...

This antique games board and chess pieces are unsigned, but the board is presumed to have originated from China, dating to approximately 1850 and done in a Chinoiserie style and the ...

This is a very attractive complete game of Marble Solitaire with a hand turned hardwood board and 33 beautiful agate mineral stone marbles, probably French and all dating to the first half of the 20th century, circa 1930s. The circular hand turned board is made of hardwood, probably mahogany, with a very good grain figure. The board has 32 equi-spaced holes with an additional one in the centre and a gallery to the outer perimeter. The board has developed a nice soft color and patina from many years of use. It comes complete with a full set of 33 (32 Plus 1 spare) early handmade playing marbles. Early marbles are very collectable in their own right and the marbles in this set are nominally about 9/16 inches in diameter. They are made from agate or mineral stone with a mixture of some lovely colors. Popular in the court of Louis the XIV, the game was supposedly invented by a nobleman incarcerated in the Bastille in France during the 17th century and was popular in the court of Louis XIV. It is a challenging game for the fan of strategy and skill and became one of the more popular games of the last few 100 years. To play, place all 32 marbles with one hole left unoccupied in the middle of the board. The objective is simply to remove all but one of the marbles by jumping one marble over another, similar to the game of Draughts. The marble jumped is removed to the gallery around the side of the board. This is a particularly nice set, with a very good hand turned board and beautiful agate marbles!

This is a complete game of marble solitaire from the late 19th century. The circular turned board is made of a light coloured hardwood, probably Ash. The board has 32 equi-spaced holes with an additional one in the centre and a gallery to the outer perimeter. It comes complete with a full set of 33 (32 plus one spare) early handmade playing marbles...

This is a complete game of 37 hole marble solitaire with a good hardwood board and 37 beautiful individual agate marbles, which we date to the early 20th...

This is a complete marble solitaire game, having a very good hardwood board and a complete set of 33 clay or stone handmade marbles, all dating t...

This is a complete board game of 37 hole marble solitaire with a very good 10.38 inch diameter hardwood board and 37 beautiful individual agate mineral stone marbles, which we date t...

This is a complete board game of marble solitaire from the late 19th century. The circular turned board is very attractive being made of a burr wood, possibly Maple, with a galler...

This is a complete game of marble solitaire, with a lovely hand-turned hardwood board and 33 earlier clay and stone marbles from the 19th century. The circular board is made from ...

This is a very attractive complete game of travelling marble solitaire with 33 beautiful agate mineral stone marbles, from the late 19th century. This two-piece board has a fairly...

This is a complete board game of 37 hole marble solitaire with a very good 10.5 inch hardwood board and 37 beautiful individual agate mineral stone marbles, which we date to the 20th...

This is an original and complete game of Marble Solitaire with a heavy hardwood board and 33 early clay and stone marbles, all dating to the mid-19th century, Victorian period, or possibly earlier. This is a substantial hand turned circular hardwood board, possibly walnut and sits on four small bun feet. The board has 32 equi-spaced holes with an additional one in the center and a gallery to the outer perimeter. The board has a brass and steel hanging ring...