A Fine c.1880 Carved Bone Scrimshaw Sailors Dice Holder & Dice sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Slightly bumped and creased corners

Slightly bumped and creased corners

5 inches (Overall)

makes them infinitely more appealing than the average still life and have real decorators attraction

with the nineteenth century paintwork still very much apparent

A Fine c.1880 Carved Bone Scrimshaw Sailors Dice Holder & Dice sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Slightly bumped and creased cornersOrigin: 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