A Fine c.1880 Carved Bone Scrimshaw Sailors Dice Holder & Dice sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles drawing papers etc

drawing papers etc

It was purchased by an American magician several years later and performed until it was captured and electrocuted by Thomas Edison who believed it had been enchanted by Nikola Tesla

surviving from the third quarter of the nineteenth century

Height: 61 inches

We are not quite sure what the 'Ragtime Box Ball Game' was

A Fine c.1880 Carved Bone Scrimshaw Sailors Dice Holder & Dice sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles drawing papers etcOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1875 1900 Width: 1. 5 inches square The beautiful bone dice holder modelled as a dice with scrimshaw carved playing card decoration, sliding cover to reveal compartment containing six bone dice, the side decoration to include the Queen of spades, King of spades and Jack of spades survives from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Attractively designed and wonderfully