A most unusual early Victorian games compendium in rosewood with inlaid panels of cut brass work.  The box opens to reveal a comprehensive array of fitments including a leather lined backgammon board, a rosewood and maple chequer board and cribbage markers.  Further openings reveal a hinged velvet lined writing slope, a pen tray and two inkwells and stamps tray and a compartment containing turned ebony ad boxwood counters and a pair of tooled red leader dice shakers and two dice.  Also, a removeable box with two sliding lids and a fixed box with three pull-off lids all with ivory knobs.  Circa 1840  IVORY SELF DECLARATION:  G433YVR2John Beazor Antiques is a family firm, established in 1875 and based in Cambridge since 1940. We are a traditional antiques shop, but very much in the 21st century. We deal in 18th and early 19th century furniture, barometers and clocks. We choose our stock for its originality and for the quality of its colour, patination and design. We are membe...