collections-britishM.csv

Image,Object type,Museum number,Title,Denomination,Escapement,Description,Producer name,School/style,State,Authority,Ethnic name (made by),Ethnic name (assoc),Culture,Production date,Production place,Find spot,Materials,Ware,Type series,Technique,Dimensions,Inscription,Curators Comments,Bib references,Location,Exhibition history,Condition,Subjects,Assoc name,Assoc place,Assoc events,Assoc titles,Acq name (acq),Acq name (finding),Acq name (excavator),Acq name (previous),Acq date,Acq notes (acq),Acq notes (exc),Dept,BM/Big number,Reg number,Add ids,Cat no,Banknote serial number,Joined objects
,artefact; calendar; game-board,"No: 1980,1214.14605",,,,"Bone artefact (calendar? or game-board?): flat rectangular shape, divided into three vertical columns by pairs of incised lines, each column has row of ten cylindrical perforations (diameter 3mm) - 30 holes in all, flat semi-circular projection at one end with suspension hole.",,,,,,,Iron Age,,,Excavated/Findspot: Lachish,bone,,,incised,Length: 6.90 centimetres; Thickness: 0.30 centimetres; Width: 2.90 centimetres,,,L.III / Lachish III: The Iron Age,Not on display,,"complete, slightly cracked in places, some incrustation; cleaned in Organics conservation June-July 2000.",,,,,,"Purchased from: Institute of Archaeology, London",,,,1980,From the Wellcome-Marston expedition of 1932-1938.,,Middle East,,"1980,1214.14605",Miscellaneous number: FN.3565,,
,artefact; calendar; game-board,"No: 1980,1214.14609",,,,"Bone artefact (calendar? or game board?): flat originally rectangular? shape, divided into three vertical columns by pairs of incised lines - only part of two columns preserved, nine cylindrical perforations preserved, flat semi-circular projection at one end with suspension hole.",,,,,,,Iron Age,,,Excavated/Findspot: Lachish,bone,,,incised,"Thickness: 0.30 - 0.40 centimetres; Length: 3.20 centimetres preserved ; Width: 1.80 centimetres preserved ",,,L.III / Lachish III: The Iron Age,Not on display,,"incomplete, about 2/3 of object missing, a little dirt incrustation.",,,,,,"Purchased from: Institute of Archaeology, London",,,,1980,From the Wellcome-Marston expedition of 1932-1938.,,Middle East,,"1980,1214.14609",Miscellaneous number: FN.1448,,
,backgammon-board,"No: 2008,6028.1",,,,Wooden game-board for backgammon; burnt and chip-carved decoration; metal hinges made from re-used cans; Russian inscription in Cyrillic script.,,,,,,,,20thC,Made in: Turkmenistan,Found/Acquired: Bayram-Ali,wood; metal,,,carved,"Length: 68 centimetres; Weight: 2.42 kilograms; Thickness: 2 centimetres opened ; Width: 25 centimetres folded ; Width: 50.40 centimetres open ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription language: Russian Inscription script: Cyrillic Inscription translation: in memory [of my] brother Andrew, from Turkmenistan Inscription note: three minor grammatical errors","This type of object is typical of prison workshops in the Former Soviet Union, others categories including wooden pipes and decorative ashtrays made from recycled tin cans. The gaming-board in question was purchased from a relative of the person named in the inscription.",,Not on display,,Fair; purchased almost as new.,,,,,,Donated by: Dr St John Simpson,,,,2008,"Purchased by the donor for 25,000 manats [then equivalent to US $4.00] from a Russian woman in Bayram Ali Sunday bazaar situated in the ruins of the site of Abdullah Khan Kala, Turkmenistan, on 18 October 1998.",,Middle East,,"2008,6028.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/6_13/35f9270c_8de0_47ac_a3b7_a3db00df989e/preview_01240122_001.jpg,backgammon-board; chess-board,"No: 2008,6029.1.a-b",,,,"Carved wooden game-board for backgammon with second board for chess on the reverse; metal hinges; face decorated with scene of a horse-drawn carriage processing in front of the so-called ""Maiden Tower"" at Baku; decoration in the centre, repeated on each side but reversed to face the different players, of an embracing couple in 18thC or 19thC dress and enclosed within a decorative floral medallion; separate bag containing gaming-pieces (b).",,,,,,,,20thC,Made in: Azerbaijan,,wood; metal,,,carved,"Length: 47.60 centimetres; Weight: 1.452 kilograms; Thickness: 2 centimetres opened ; Width: 24.50 centimetres folded ; Width: 49.30 centimetres open ",,"The decoration on the face evokes life in Baku in the 19th century when it was part of Russia, whereas the medallions within are in Iranian style.",,On display (G42/dc12),,Fair; new,,,Topographic representation of: Maiden Tower,,,Donated by: Yusif Baghirzade,,,,2008,,,Middle East,,"2008,6029.1.a-b",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/13_13/84871079_e746_4db9_9c69_a3c300dd90d7/preview_00803966_001.jpg,backgammon-board,"No: 2004,0609.1",,,,"Small-scale backgammon board made of black and gold lacquered wood, decorated with scrolling plants and the crest (mon) of the Asano family. With metal handle at each end.",,,,,,,,19thC,Made in: Japan,,wood; lacquer; metal,,,lacquered,Height: 6.50 centimetres; Length: 13.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited: 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum,  Across the Board",,heraldry,,,,,Purchased from: A R Reeves,,,,2004,,,Asia,,"2004,0609.1",,,
,base; game-board,"No: 1880,0719.219",,,,"Part of a game-board? Pedestal of bull, 4 lines of inscription, granite.",,,,,,,,,,Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik,granite,,,,Length: 6.35 centimetres; Width: 4.44 centimetres,Inscription type: inscription,,Bezold 1896a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum,Not on display,,,cattle,,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,,"1880,0719.219",Miscellaneous number: 388 (Rassam Inventory number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/58f4b615_c04a_473b_860b_a3b800ee2eb0/preview_01357525_001.jpg,betel-box; mould; game-board,"No: As1893,1123.65",,,,"Betel-box (with lid), two-part mould (?), gameboard (?) made of wood.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Maldives,wood,,,,Height: 8.10 centimetres; Weight: 1.21 kilograms; Width: 38.40 centimetres; Depth: 11.70 centimetres,,"Asia Floor Card ""[mould] or [game-board]"".",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Mr P E Radley,,,,1893,,,Asia,,"As1893,1123.65","CDMS number: As1893C1123.65 (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: As1972,Q.3054",,
,brick; game-board,"No: 1919,1011.2816",,,,Fragment of fired clay brick; yellow; one side scored with cross-hatching for a game-board.,,,,,,,,,Made in: Iraq,Excavated/Findspot: Ur (city - archaic) (?),fired clay,,,incised,Length: 7.25 inches; Width: 6.25 inches,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,,1919,,,Middle East,,"1919,1011.2816",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/10_11/037fea50_2aca_4973_a371_a3c000b94a14/preview_00548012_001.jpg,brick; game-board,"No: 1983,0101.376",,,,Fired clay brick modified for use as a game-board with carefully incised boards on the upper surface; incomplete.,,,,,,,Mesopotamian,,,"Excavated/Findspot: Iraq, South (?)",fired clay,,,incised,"Length: 25 centimetres incomplete ; Thickness: 8 centimetres; Width: 18 centimetres incomplete ",,"Old paper label, measuring ca 8.5 x 5.7 cm. across, attached to one side, but writing now faded.","Marseille 1991 / Jouer dans l'Antiquite (reg. number given in error as 1913-11-1,376)",On display (G1/wp71/sh7),"Exhibited:
2003- Nov-, BM, G1/Enlightenment gallery",Abraded surfaces and edges,,,,,,,,,,,Previously unregistered find from 19thC or early 20thC old collection acquired in Iraq and almost certainly southern Iraq. Previously stated as possibly coming from Eridu (Marseille 1991) but this is uncertain.,,Middle East,,"1983,0101.376","Miscellaneous number: 1913,1101.376 (incorrect number in literature)",,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_15/b1fb94e6_406c_42db_9379_a3e100f93d20/preview_00108043_001.jpg,card; game-board,"No: Am1988,08.366.a-b",,,,"Card; made of paper; two sets sealed in plastic bags; each card has squares printed with images inside (such as devil, mermaid, barrel, hero, Death, flag, clown, horse, rooster)",,,,,,,,1980s,Retailed in: Papantla,,paper; plastic,,,printed,Height: 12 centimetres; Width: 9 centimetres,,"Cards are used for playing Mexican lottery (La Loteria in Spanish); game is similar to bingo, where someone calls out name of image, and player must cover all images on card to win.",,Not on display,,,gambling/gaming,,,,,,,,,1988,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1988,08.366.a-b",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_4/f6140e34_502d_4d02_89dc_a3bb0046f2ce/preview_00298530_001.jpg,case; dice; game-board; game-piece; draughts-board; draughts-piece; backgammon-board; backgammon-piece,"No: 1896,0209.3",,,,"Case; stamped leather; decorated with gilt thistles and geometric designs; opens in four leaves, forming boards for backgammon, checquers etc; hinged mirror opposite spinning pointer on dicing chance dial decorated with scene with actors(?); 26 small pierced ivory gaming-counter and two dice.",,,,,,,,18thC,Made in: Germany,,leather; ivory; gold,,,gilded; stamped; pierced,Length: 10.70 centimetres; Width: 11.60 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games Across the World'",,actor/actress; plant,,,,,Purchased through: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (Executors of),,,,1896,,,"Britain, Europe and Prehistory",,"1896,0209.3",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/b9eebba9_ad9b_4ebf_9aaf_a3b601011305/preview_00019336_001.jpg,changgi-set; changgi-board; changgi-piece,"No: 1991,1231.2",,,,"Changgi. Korean chess game comprising board and thirty-two pieces, and a string bag to store the counters. Made of wood and textile.",,,,,,,Joseon Dynasty,late 19thC-early 20thC,,Found/Acquired: Korea,wood; textile,,,,"Height: 14.500 centimetres board ; Length: 45 centimetres board ; Width: 53.20 centimetres board ",,"2016 National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage catalogue entries:
'Janggi, sometimes called Korean chess, is a traditional strategic board game symbolically representing a battle between the Chinese states of Han (漢) and Chu (楚). To play the game, each player starts with sixteen pieces standing for a general, guards, horses, elephants, chariots, cannons, and soldiers. This board was made with several wooden blocks joined to each other to make four legs, and covered with three wooden plates fixed with two wooden nails on each side. Four of the pieces (one guard and three soldiers) are unlabeled, as the originals have been lost. The bag for holding the pieces is woven with hemp thread.'
'장기는 각 진영이 말을 움직여 상대편 진영을 공격하여 장군을 먼저 잡는 것으로 승부를 정하는 진법陣法놀이이다. 이 장기판은 사개물린 다리 위에 3쪽의 널을 이어 붙인 판을 대고 각 널에 2개씩의 굵은 나무못을 박아 고정하였다. 다리에는 박쥐풍혈을 하였다. 좌우의 서랍 뒷면 바닥에는 소유자의 이름으로 보이는 ‘이강윤李康允’이라는 묵서가 있다. 말은 두께가 조금씩 다르며 글자는 양각하였다. 말은 총 32개로 각 진영마다 각 16개가 있으나 사士 하나, 졸卒 3개가 분실되어 나중에 글씨 없는 말 4개가 추가된 것으로 보인다. 말을 담아 둔 망태는 삼실을 엮어 짠 것이다.'",National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage 2016 / Korean Collections at the British Museum; 국립문화재연구소 2016 / 영국박물관 소장 한국문화재,Not on display,"Exhibited: 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,Purchased from: Mrs Yi Dooyoung,,,,1991,,,Asia,,"1991,1231.2",,,
,chess-board,"No: 1998,0220.5",,,,Cloth chess-board.,,,,,,,,20thC (mid),Made in: China,,textile,,,,Length: 37 centimetres; Width: 57 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited: 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,Purchased from: Ms Jehanne de Biolley,Funded by: British Museum Friends (as British Museum Society),,,1998,,,Asia,,"1998,0220.5",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/1fe886b3_5a3c_4d14_8309_a3b800eec5b1/preview_01357672_001.jpg,chess-board,"No: As1893,1123.99.a",,,,Chess board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Maldives,wood,,,,Height: 10.50 centimetres; Weight: 4.92 kilograms; Width: 73 centimetres; Depth: 51 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Mr P E Radley,,,,1893,,,Asia,,"As1893,1123.99.a","CDMS number: As1893C1123.99a (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: As1972,Q.2692",,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/3_6/3ec9c64f_8a5b_40db_a83a_a3b900684b7e/preview_00344333_001.jpg,chess-board; chess-piece,"No: Af1926,0414.4-36",,,,"Chess board (4) made of leather, with squares in natural and red-dyed. Sixteen wooden chess pieces stained black comprising: King (5) with white cotton cloth around neck; Queen (6); two Castles (7-8); two Bishops (9-10); two Knights (11-12); eight Pawns (13-20). Sixteen unstained wooden chess pieces comprising: King (21) with white cotton cloth around neck;  Queen (22); two Bishops (23-24); two Knights (25-26); two Castles (27-28); eight Pawns (29-36).",,,,,Kanuri,Associated with: Arab (in the style of),,20thC(early) (before 1926),Made in: Africa,Found/Acquired: Borno State,leather; wood; cotton,,,dyed; stained,"Height: 11.60 centimetres (10) ; Height: 12.60 centimetres (11) ; Height: 12.30 centimetres (12) ; Height: 3.10 centimetres (13) ; Height: 3.10 centimetres (14) ; Height: 2.80 centimetres (15) ; Height: 1.70 centimetres (16) ; Height: 3.40 centimetres (17) ; Height: 2.50 centimetres (18) ; Height: 2.50 centimetres (19) ; Height: 2.10 centimetres (20) ; Height: 16 centimetres (21) ; Height: 15.70 centimetres (22) ; Height: 12.40 centimetres (23) ; Height: 12.50 centimetres (24) ; Height: 12.70 centimetres (25) ; Height: 12.30 centimetres (26) ; Height: 11.60 centimetres (27) ; Height: 11.80 centimetres (28) ; Height: 2.50 centimetres (29) ; Height: 2.20 centimetres (30) ; Height: 2.10 centimetres (31) ; Height: 1.80 centimetres (32) ; Height: 1.90 centimetres (33) ; Height: 1.60 centimetres (34) ; Height: 1.70 centimetres (35) ; Height: 1.70 centimetres (36) ; Height: 42 centimetres (4) ; Height: 14.70 centimetres (5) ; Height: 14.40 centimetres (6) ; Height: 11.90 centimetres (7) ; Height: 11.50 centimetres (8) ; Height: 12.70 centimetres (9) ; Width: 3.60 centimetres (10) ; Width: 3.90 centimetres (11) ; Width: 3.60 centimetres (12) ; Width: 2.70 centimetres (13) ; Width: 2.50 centimetres (14) ; Width: 2.60 centimetres (15) ; Width: 2.90 centimetres (16) ; Width: 2.60 centimetres (17) ; Width: 3.10 centimetres (18) ; Width: 2.80 centimetres (19) ; Width: 2.90 centimetres (20) ; Width: 4.40 centimetres (21) ; Width: 4.20 centimetres (22) ; Width: 4.40 centimetres (23) ; Width: 4.60 centimetres (24) ; Width: 4.20 centimetres (25) ; Width: 4 centimetres (26) ; Width: 4.50 centimetres (27) ; Width: 4.20 centimetres (28) ; Width: 3 centimetres (29) ; Width: 2.80 centimetres (30) ; Width: 3 centimetres (31) ; Width: 3 centimetres (32) ; Width: 3.20 centimetres (33) ; Width: 3.50 centimetres (34) ; Width: 3 centimetres (35) ; Width: 3.50 centimetres (36) ; Width: 42.60 centimetres (4) ; Width: 4.30 centimetres (5) ; Width: 4.30 centimetres (6) ; Width: 4.20 centimetres (7) ; Width: 4.20 centimetres (8) ; Width: 4.30 centimetres (9) ; Depth: 3.80 centimetres (10) ; Depth: 4.50 centimetres (11) ; Depth: 3.80 centimetres (12) ; Depth: 2.20 centimetres (13) ; Depth: 2.20 centimetres (14) ; Depth: 2.20 centimetres (15) ; Depth: 3.10 centimetres (16) ; Depth: 2.20 centimetres (17) ; Depth: 2.80 centimetres (18) ; Depth: 2.30 centimetres (19) ; Depth: 2.50 centimetres (20) ; Depth: 4.30 centimetres (21) ; Depth: 4.20 centimetres (22) ; Depth: 4.40 centimetres (23) ; Depth: 4.60 centimetres (24) ; Depth: 4.80 centimetres (25) ; Depth: 4.80 centimetres (26) ; Depth: 4.50 centimetres (27) ; Depth: 4.20 centimetres (28) ; Depth: 2.30 centimetres (29) ; Depth: 2.30 centimetres (30) ; Depth: 2.20 centimetres (31) ; Depth: 2.30 centimetres (32) ; Depth: 3.20 centimetres (33) ; Depth: 3.20 centimetres (34) ; Depth: 2.30 centimetres (35) ; Depth: 3.40 centimetres (36) ; Depth: 1.90 centimetres (4) ; Depth: 4.40 centimetres (5) ; Depth: 4.30 centimetres (6) ; Depth: 4.20 centimetres (7) ; Depth: 3.80 centimetres (8) ; Depth: 4.40 centimetres (9) ",,"Chess set
Bornu, Nigeria, about 1920
Af1926,0414.4-36
This Nigerian chess set was made comparatively recently, but preserves many features of the game as it was played in the Islamic world, including pieces’ shapes and rules. These rules were quite different from those of today – the queen, for example, was much less powerful. The pieces, although stylised, are still recognisable as figures on the battlefield that the game represents.",,On display (G42/dc12),,,,,,,,Purchased from: C K Meek,,,,1926,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1926,0414.4-36",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/3_18/91d4fd18_3fe3_4c69_a1bf_a3b90131c646/preview_00216530_001.jpg,chess-set; chess-board,"No: As,SLMisc.1122",,,,"Game board, chess board made of burgundy-coloured silk velvet cloth with squares and decorative floral motifs marked out in metal-thread braid; edged with blue and white silk braid; backed with plain red cotton cloth.",,,,,Mongol,,,,,Found/Acquired: India (?),cotton; metal; silk,,,velvet (silk),Length: 53 centimetres; Width: 50 centimetres,,"Given to Sir Hans Sloane by his nephew.
From Sloane Catalogue (Miscellanea) ""A chesse play ...the men of ivory on elephants etc., as in the great Mogul's country"". Additional interpolated note (in a different hand) ""twelve [men] with ... animals"".
Currently with Ethnography Department tag giving geographic provenance ""Mongolia"" (4/1991) - a mis-attribution perhaps derived from ""Mogul"" meaning ""Mongolian"" therefore ""Mongolia"" (?). ""The great Mogul's country"" refers to Mongolian empire established in India, 16th-19th century. (AMD,4/1991).
Chess-board only, identified 1991; chess-pieces not found at that time but were found later and five of them are now on display in the Enlightenment Gallery in floor case 14 which deals with Sloane's Artificial Rarities.; Nine game pieces, thought to be associated with this game board, were found unnumbered amongst the Asian ethnographic collections in 1972, Registered as As1972,Q.321, 322, 323, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329 and 330.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane,,,,1753,,,Asia,,"As,SLMisc.1122",CDMS number: As1753D10.1122 (old CDMS no.),,
,chess-set; chess-piece; nine men's morris board; chess-board,"No: 2004,1215.1.a-fff",,,,"Box with lid containing pieces of a combination of a nine men's morris and chess-set, made of wood.  Thirty-two chess pieces and twenty-four counters.",,,,,,,,1940-1945,Made in: Isle of Man,,wood,,,,,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Dr Irving Finkel,Funded by: British Museum Friends,,,2004,,,"Britain, Europe and Prehistory",,"2004,1215.1.a-fff",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_10/35898b05_cdc0_47fb_9a24_a3b700a5d196/preview_00046160_001.jpg,chess-set; chess-piece; chess-board; backgammon-board,"No: 2004,1216.1.a-ii",,,,"Embriachi bone and wood alla certosina gaming box with boards for chess and backgammon, together with a chess set of ivory and tortoiseshell with gold pique inlay.",Workshop of: Embriachi,,,,,,,15thC (board); 18thC (chessmen),Made in: Italy;  Made in: Germany,,bone; wood; ivory; tortoise-shell; gold,,,inlaid,,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited: (a-hh)
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,,Funded by: British Museum Friends,,,,Purchased by the vendor from a Christie's Works of Art sale about 10 years ago.,,"Britain, Europe and Prehistory",,"2004,1216.1.a-ii",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/15_7/41ef42a2_49e1_46dd_95e4_a3c5007abf63/preview_00921440_001.jpg,container; warri-board,"No: Af1950,15.1.c",,,,Drawer; carved of wood; rectangular drawer with round knob on one short side; used for Warri-board pieces.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone (?),wood,,,carved,Length: 16 centimetres; Width: 4 centimetres; Depth: 3 centimetres,,"Accompanies board and peg: Af1950,15.1a-b.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: J C Cross,,,,1950,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1950,15.1.c",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_20/1e7fba63_8de1_42ed_9ed8_a3b8014e7ca7/preview_00330070_001.jpg,cribbage-board,"No: Am1987,09.3.a",,,,"Cribbage board; carved of ivory; board with painted depiction of harpooning equipment and four seals; one end carved in form of seal, the other having cavity for pegs.",Made by: Ematulu Saggiak,,,,Inuit,,,,,Found/Acquired: Cape Dorset,ivory,,,carved,Height: 4 centimetres; Width: 39 centimetres; Depth: 7 centimetres,,"see Rayna Green (ed) `The British Museum Encyclopaedia of Native North America' British Museum Press, 1999
In set with Am1987,09.03.b-f",Green 1999 / The British Museum Encyclopaedia of Native North America,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 24 Aug-22 Sep, Harlow Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1991 28 Sep-27 Oct, Bedford Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1991 2 Nov-1 Dec, Braintree Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1991 7 Dec-1992 5 Jan, Aylesbury Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1992 11 Jan-9 Feb, Chichester Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1992 21 Mar-19 Apr, Gosport Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1992 30 May-28 Jun, Newbury Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North",,,,,,,Purchased from: West Baffin Co-operative,,,,1987,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1987,09.3.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_16/23acdf37_47f7_428f_9103_a3b6010d5204/preview_00022693_001.jpg,cribbage-board,"No: Am1997,10.1",,,,"Cribbage board made from a piece of fossil walrus ivory, cut and highly polished. The arc shape piece of flat ivory, with a broken flange to one side, may be an old artefact reutilised; the board consists of a conventional 2x6 arrangement of rectangles, each with ten drilled holes, two additional holes at either end. The ivory is discoloured from burial.",,,,,Inupiat,,,1890-1950,Made in: Alaska (state) (north;?),Found/Acquired: Alaska (state) (north;?),walrus ivory,,,carved; drilled; polished,Height: 2 centimetres; Length: 20 centimetres; Width: 4.50 centimetres,,"This is very typical of work made for sale to tourists today in Inupiat Alaska, and sold for instance at Nome.
Eth.Doc.524. This was said by the donor to have been previously owned by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer ""Frenchie"" Chartrand who served on the Canadian vessel 'St Roch'.",,Not on display,,Good.,,,,,,Donated by: M A Parker,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Frenchie Chartrand,1997,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1997,10.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_16/4ccaddd4_c561_4613_b699_a3da0115a16f/preview_01217602_001.jpg,cribbage-board,"No: Am1914,-.226",,,,"Cribbage board, game (part of) carved from ivory (walrus) in the representation of a seal and with incised features in black.",,,,,Eskimo-Aleut,,,,,Found/Acquired: Corwin Mine;  Found/Acquired: Cape Lisburne,walrus ivory,,,carved; incised,Length: 11.20 centimetres; Width: 2.10 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Mrs E Mathilde Claridge,,,,1914,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1914,-.226",CDMS number: Am1914C3.226 (old CDMS no.),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/10_18/c3616eea_448a_413f_9581_a3df013458ff/preview_01537250_001.jpg,cribbage-board,"No: 2014,2004.62",,,,"Cribbage board; carved of ivory; ivory tusk, polished and carved with flat section near wider end; four rows of holes carved for cribbage pegs.",,,,,Arctic Peoples,,,1930s (before),,Found/Acquired: Greenland (?);  Found/Acquired: Ellesmere Island (?),ivory,,,carved,Height: 43.75 centimetres; Width: 7.50 centimetres; Depth: 4 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Good.,,,,,,Donated by: Anthony Haig-Thomas,,,,2014,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"2014,2004.62",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_10/41c7fd07_0624_4e18_b76f_a3b600ab20a8/preview_00193138_001.jpg,divination-bowl; game-board; flute; game-piece; human skeletal remains; bag; divination-bone,"No: Af1946,04.1.a-y",,,,"Wooden divining bowl (a) or game board with zoomorphic decoration and attached cotton ? cord; bird ? bone flute or part of game (b); game-piece ? (c) made of part of bird's bone, pierced; cotton bag (d); twenty-one divining-bones or game pieces made of of bone (e-y).",,,,,Venda,,,20thC(early) (before 1911),Made in: South Africa,Found/Acquired: South Africa,wood; cotton; bone,,,carved; pierced,"Height: 10 centimetres a ; Width: 32 centimetres a ; Depth: 31 centimetres a ",,"Divining bowls, ndilo, were made up to the end of the 19th century for use at the courts of Venda chiefs to divine witchcraft. Venda chiefs trace their ancestry back to the founding hero, Thoho ya Ndou, who is said to have led his people into the northern Transvaal from Zimbabwe. After founding his capital at Dzata in the Soutpansberg (c.1700), Thoho ya Ndou is said to have disappeared into Lake Funduzi, and to remain there to this day presiding over a court in the water, which is a replica of those of living chiefs. These ndilo appear to depict this lake kingdom of the founding hero, while simultaneously being metaphors for the courts of living chiefs.
The subjects of the king were summoned to the central court of the capital, where they were seated according to their sub-groups in concentric circles around the bowl and the diviner. The bowls were filled with water so that the crocodile on the bed of the bowl became immersed within a lake. The central mound topped by the cowrie shell was filled with magical substances; it projected above the water level, apparently referring to the mountains against which the chiefs’ capitals are built. Maize kernels were floated on this water and, as the bowl tipped or rocked on the bosses of its convex underside, the places in which they touched the rim were noted. Carved all around the rim are images representing animals which denote the different emblems of Venda subgroups, as well as designs drawn from Venda divining tablets, thangu. Thus, the pints at which the kernels touched the rim would indicate which subgroups the witches belonged to, as the divining tablet would shape their gender.
Any kernels which sank to the bed of the bowl would be interpreted according to which signs they touched there. These include two pronged shapes indicating the chief’s wives, a semi-circular enclosure indicating the cattle byre, a straight zig-zag line denoting both the path to the capital and lightning, and a bird-like form referring to the ‘lightning bird’ said to lay eggs at the point that lightning strokes.
The designs on the underside of the bowl further amplify this picture. Around part of the rim of the underside, the bowl is decorated with a further chevron pattern said to represent the python that writhe son the edge sof pools and lakes. Concentric circle designs are called ‘the eye of the crocodile’ and interlace designs refer to its skin. 
This particular bowl is one of the few that have survived and is an exceptionally elaborately carved example. It has attached to it other objects used by diviners. Bowls of this kind were counted among the dzingoma (Mysteries/relics) of the chiefdom.
T. Phillips (ed.), Africa, the art of a continent (London, Royal Academy, 1995) pp:201; Eth.Doc.2014. H J Braunholtz in an article in the BMQ, XVII, 1, June 1952 notes that the bowl was acquired by the donor about 1911 after the owner's conviction for witchcraft. He states that such bowls (ndilo) were formerly used by professional diviners (mungonia) for revealing the identity of witches (muloi). Brauhholtz provides a detailed description of the bowl and the method of divination.",Phillips 1996 / Africa: The Art of a Continent,On display (G25/dc14),"Exhibited:
1995/6 Oct-Jan, Royal Academy of Arts, Africa: The Art of a Continent
1996 Mar-May, Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Africa: The Art of a Continent
1996 May-Sep, New York, Guggenheim Museum, Africa: The Art of a Continent
1997, Belgium, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Zimbabwe, Past and Present",Small hole in bag.,,,,,,From: D Allam,,,,1946,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1946,04.1.a-y","Miscellaneous number: Af1946,04.1.a (former registration number); Miscellaneous number: Af1946,04.1.b (former registration number); Miscellaneous number: Af1946,04.1.c (former registration number); Miscellaneous number: Af1946,04.1.d (former registration number); Miscellaneous number: Af1946,04.1.e-y (former registration number)",,
,draughts-board,No: 102396,,,,"Glazed composition Egyptian draughts-board with twenty squares on one side and twenty circles within squares on the other, right side of the board missing. Two ducks as ornament on the edge at one side. Five squares in one of the outer rows are inscribed, the remaining squares are left blank. The three rows of circles on the other side are divided by two bands of rosettes; the sixth circle in the centre row is decorated as a flower with sixteen petals. Formerly covered with blue glaze which is now faded.",,,,,,,18th Dynasty,,Made in: Egypt,"Found/Acquired: Iraq, South (?)",glazed composition,,,glazed,Length: 28.57 centimetres; Thickness: 2.54 centimetres; Width: 15.24 centimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription position: five squares in outer row,,,Not on display,,,bird; flower,,,,,Purchased from: J J Naaman (?),,,,1906,,,Middle East,102396,"1906,0512.317",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/9_14/a67100f4_79e0_47e8_be0e_a3de00f62703/preview_01438364_001.jpg,draughts-board,"No: Am1987,08.7.a",,,,Draughts board made of seal skin.,,,,,Inuit,,,,,Found/Acquired: Holman Island;  Found/Acquired: Victoria Island (Canada),seal skin,,,,Length: 45 centimetres; Width: 45 centimetres,,"In set with Am1987,08.07.b-y",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1990 24 Sep-1992 12 Apr, British Museum; Board Games of the World",,,,,,,Purchased from: La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau-Québec,,,,1987,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1987,08.7.a",,,
,draughts-board; backgammon-board; dice; box; disc; draughts-piece; backgammon-piece,"No: 1878,1101.196",,,,"Draughts board; wood; inlaid; arrangement for backgammon inside; two grey dice and two red discs, boxes with gilt and painted ornaments; contains thirty-two wooden draughtsmen; sixteen white and sixteen black with pressed devices chiefly from discs by P.H.Muller, representing historical events from 1687-1694.",After: P H Muller,,,,,,,,,,wood; gold,,,inlaid; gilded; painted,,,Associated dates : 1687-1694.,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lt-Gen Augustus W H Meyrick,,,,1878,,,"Britain, Europe and Prehistory",,"1878,1101.196",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/b59d8aba_5915_46a1_bc5a_a3bb005cc898/preview_00304657_001.jpg,drawing; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.100",,,,"Game board with thirty-six numbered squares containing animals, birds, coats-of-arms, men, women and flowers, each row containing one of each.  On either side of this grid, compartments containing the words 'pari' and dispari' and 'fuori' and 'dentro'
Pen and ink and watercolour, mounted on canvas and bound with silk",Drawn by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper; canvas; silk,,,drawn,Height: 535 millimetres; Width: 740 millimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.100",,,
,drawing; game-board,"No: 1894,0508.1",Gioco Reale (Object),,,"Game board with thirty-six numbered squares containing animals, birds, cartouches, men, women and fruit, each row containing one of each; on either side of this grid, compartments containing the words 'pari' and 'dispari' and 'fuori' and 'dentro'; with 99 additional rolled slips (counters) of vellum with similar images kept separately in a small box.
Watercolour on vellum, backed on linen and mounted on painted wooden rollers",Drawn by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,vellum; linen; wood,,,drawn,"Height: 445 millimetres approx ; Width: 795 millimetres approx ",,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1894,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1894,0508.1",,,
,figure; game-board,No: 121214,,,,"Torso from figure of winged limestone (?) bull; from game-board (?). Legs, head, neck and tail broken off.",,,,,,,Mesopotamian,,,"Found/Acquired: Iraq, North",limestone,,,,Height: 10.50 centimetres; Length: 13.80 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Fair; incomplete.,mammal,,,,,,,,,1983,,"In old collections, apparently previously unregistered. Most probably acquired before 1884, from Rassam in Babylonia or early Assyrian excavations, but many of wholly indeterminate origin.",Middle East,121214,"1983,0101.77",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_23/40738ab2_f375_4104_b1c0_a3dd0185f681/preview_01424437_001.jpg,game-board,"No: As1886,1213.106",,,,Game board.,,,,,Chinese Peoples,,,19thC (mid),,Found/Acquired: Straits Settlements,,,,,Height: 3 centimetres; Weight: 1.20 kilograms; Width: 32.20 centimetres; Depth: 38.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Government of Straits Settlements,,,,1886,Acquired for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition from the Commissioners for the Straits Settlements.,,Asia,,"As1886,1213.106","Miscellaneous number: As1966,+.106 (also registered as)",,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_23/e4f8dfff_24f4_40b3_98fb_a3dd01861220/preview_01424456_001.jpg,game-board,"No: As1886,1213.56",,,,Game board.,,,,,,,,19thC (mid),,Found/Acquired: Straits Settlements;  Found/Acquired: Perak,,,,,Height: 2.10 centimetres; Weight: 3.40 kilograms; Width: 53.30 centimetres; Depth: 53.60 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Government of Straits Settlements,,,,1886,Acquired for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition from the Commissioners for the Straits Settlements.,,Asia,,"As1886,1213.56","Miscellaneous number: As1966,+.56 (also registered as)",,
,game-board,No: 139516,,,,Corner of white stone game-board; hoof and relief on side.,,,,,,,,,Made in: Asia,,stone,,,,Length: 5.80 centimetres; Thickness: 2.80 centimetres; Width: 3.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Fair; incomplete.,,,,,,,,,,1983,,"In old collections, apparently previously unregistered. Most probably acquired before 1884, from Rassam in Babylonia or early Assyrian excavations, but many of wholly indeterminate origin.",Middle East,139516,"1983,0101.59",,,
,game-board,No: 90971,,,,Fragment from base and edge of zoned alabaster game-board; relief frieze on edge showing parts of two figures.,,,,,,,Mesopotamian,,,Excavated/Findspot: Nimrud (?),alabaster,,,,Length: 2.13 inches; Thickness: 2 inches; Width: 1.75 inches,,Possibly part of BM.123333.,,Not on display,,Fair; incomplete.,,,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,90971,.90971,Other BM number: 12103 (previous big number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_18/a95e28b1_81c0_48fb_b1eb_a3b5012add4b/preview_00152368_001.jpg,game-board,No: 90963,,,,Limestone board for game of 20 squares; carved and polished; 9 squares marked out on surface.,,,,,,,Neo-Assyrian,700BC-612BC,,Excavated/Findspot: Nineveh (Iraq),limestone,,,carved; polished,Length: 3 inches; Width: 3 inches,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
1990-2008 BM, G55/Later Mesopotamia, case 2
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games Across the World'",,,,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,90963,.90963,Miscellaneous number: 12095,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_16/2bdb333d_6621_4515_9688_a3da01134963/preview_01216849_001.jpg,game-board,No: EPH-ME.4,,,,"Reproduction game-board set of ""The Ur Game"" designed and produced by Northwest Corner.",Made by: Northwest Corner,,,,,,,20thC,,,paper,,,,Height: 5 centimetres; Length: 14 centimetres; Width: 35 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Fair,,,Associated with: Ur (city - archaic),,Royal Game of Ur,,,,,1991 (15 March),,,Middle East,,EPH-ME.4,,,
,game-board,"No: As1987,16.187",,,,"Game board (used for Ludo and Snakes and Ladders) made of paper, cotton.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Dhaka (city) (?),paper; cotton,,,,,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Ms Shireen Akbar,,,,1987,,,Asia,,"As1987,16.187",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/15_22/7d9f94ba_a83a_43d5_bfea_a3c501735f93/preview_00973205_001.jpg,game-board,"No: 1873,0505.150",,,,"Stone slab with nine inscribed depressions, perhaps used for a board game (?).",,,,,,,Roman,1stC-3rdC,,Excavated/Findspot: Ephesus,stone,,,,Length: 26.67 centimetres,Inscription type: inscription,,,On display (G69/dc9),,,,,,,,Donated by: Ephesus Excavation Committee,,,,1873,,,Greek and Roman,,"1873,0505.150",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_18/5e042668_77b5_423a_ba78_a3b5012ae135/preview_00152370_001.jpg,game-board,No: 90970,,,,"Stone board for game of 58 holes; carved and polished; upper and lower surface has 21 hollow, circular holes and there are deeper holes on the sides (4 on each side).",,,,,,,Neo-Assyrian,700BC-612BC,,Excavated/Findspot: Nineveh (Iraq),stone,,,carved; polished,Length: 4.50 inches; Width: 3.50 inches,,,Gadd 1934a / An Egyptian game in Assyria,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,90970,.90970,Miscellaneous number: 12102,,
,game-board,"No: As1987,16.188",,,,"Game board (used for Ludo, also Snakes and Ladders) made of paper, cotton.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Dhaka (city) (?),paper; cotton,,,,,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Ms Shireen Akbar,,,,1987,,,Asia,,"As1987,16.188",,,
,game-board,No: N.1676,,,,"Large fragment from a stone gaming board of red mottled marble, the track for the pieces being indicated by holes, some marked with rosettes; edge of the board decorated with a frieze relief showing winged and human figures, and quadrupeds; sometimes called 'Game of 58 Holes', a race game for two players, played with stick pieces which moved round the track at the throw of a dice; inscription.",,,,Esarhaddon,,,Neo-Assyrian,680BC-669BC,,Excavated/Findspot: Nineveh (Iraq) (?);  Excavated/Findspot: Nimrud (?),marble,,,,Height: 7.50 centimetres; Thickness: 12 centimetres; Width: 15 centimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription note: Indicates that the board was the property of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria.","Part of N.1673 (BM.123333)
Compare with 1880,0719.208",Curtis & Reade 1994a / Tesoros de asiria en el Museo Britanico: Arte e Imperio,Not on display,,Joined to N.1673,animal; flower,Named in inscription: Esarhaddon,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,,N.1676,,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/9_11/3cb32943_ec91_47d4_94ba_a3bf00b5ced1/preview_00505778_001.jpg,game-board,No: EA14315,,,,"Small slab of limestone, carved into a rectangular shape and incised with a grid, to create a gaming board.",,,,,,,Third Intermediate; Late Period,,,Excavated/Findspot: Giza (Memphis),limestone,,,carved; incised,Height: 7 centimetres; Weight: 601 grammes; Width: 19 centimetres; Depth: 15.30 centimetres,,"Without archaeological context, providing a date for this gaming board is very difficult. For another simple gaming board incised on a limestone block, of New Kingdom date, from Deir el-Medina, see Les artistes de pharaon (exhibition catalogue, Paris 2003), 129 [no.71]",,On display (G61/dc6/sB),,fair,,,,,,Donated by: Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie,,,,1884,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA14315,"1884,0810.58",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_16/71d95bca_d917_49b0_bf1d_a3da011594ee/preview_01217508_001.jpg,game-board; game,"No: Am1914,-.231",,,,"Marking board, game (part of) carved from wood and painted red inside with circle and line markers in pencil.  Board opens out and has tanned hide hinges held together with iron nails.",,,,,Eskimo-Aleut,,,,,Found/Acquired: Corwin Mine;  Found/Acquired: Cape Lisburne,wood; skin; iron,,,carved; painted,"Length: 20.20 centimetres; Width: 7.50 centimetres closed ; Width: 14.50 centimetres open ",,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Mrs E Mathilde Claridge,,,,1914,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1914,-.231",CDMS number: Am1914C3.231 (old CDMS no.),,
,game-board,No: EA69854,,,,Fragment of blue glazed composition game-board(?) with black-line detail on both sides.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Egypt,glazed composition,,,,Height: 2.40 centimetres; Weight: 70 grammes; Width: 8 centimetres; Depth: 5 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,fair (incomplete),,,,,,Donated by: T Bingham,,,,1986,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA69854,"1986,1208.3",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/3_20/e67c23e3_a053_4a90_a484_a3b901576f1e/00226746_001.jpg,game-board,No: EA30465,,,,"A small ivory leg: in the form of a bull's foot, possibly from a game-board. At the top of the leg is a tenon, 1. 3cm high, pierced horizontally by two small holes for fixing. This tenon is situated in the front right-hand corner of the upper surface, and is marked with saw cuts at its base. Small traces of wood adhere to the tenon. The leg is well carved but not completely polished, and the marks made by the tools are still evident. In the right side there is a small wooden dowel, projecting from a hole in the ivory. Good condition.",,,,,,,1st Dynasty; 2nd Dynasty,,,Found/Acquired: Egypt,ivory,,,pierced; sawn; carved; polished,Height: 6.40 centimetres; Weight: 0.019 kilograms; Width: 2.70 centimetres; Depth: 1.60 centimetres,,"For similar small ivory legs, see A. Scharff, ‘Die Altertümer der Vor – und Frühzeit Ägyptens’ II (Berlin, 1929-31) nos. 290-1.",Spencer 1980 / Early Dynastic Objects,On display (G64/dc10),,Good. Incomplete - leg only,cattle,,,,,Purchased through: Rev Chauncey Murch,,,,1899,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA30465,"1899,0314.17",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/3_20/f110b196_cbf2_4d4d_9ac1_a3b90157705c/00226747_001.jpg,game-board,No: EA30466,,,,"An ivory leg: in the form of a bull's leg, possibly from a game-board, with a tenon projecting 1.4cm from the top. This tenon is in the front left-hand corner of the upper surface, and is pierced by a single hole for fixing. In the left side of the leg is a small hole for a dowel. This leg belonged to the same object as 1899,0314.17, but was intended to be fixed on the opposite side, so that the positions of the tenon and dowel are reversed.",,,,,,,1st Dynasty; 2nd Dynasty,,,Found/Acquired: Egypt,ivory,,,pierced; carved,Height: 6.50 centimetres; Weight: 0.018 kilograms; Width: 2.90 centimetres; Depth: 1.40 centimetres,,"For similar small ivory legs, see A. Scharff, ‘Die Altertümer der Vor – und Frühzeit Ägyptens’ II (Berlin, 1929-31) nos. 290-1.",Spencer 1980 / Early Dynastic Objects,On display (G64/dc10),,"Incomplete- legy only. The ivory is slightly split, but its general condition is good.",cattle,,,,,Purchased through: Rev Chauncey Murch,,,,1899,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA30466,"1899,0314.18",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_17/e3877f3f_5b0a_4f84_bc0f_a3e1011f88d0/preview_00117649_001.jpg,game-board,"No: Am1989,12.389.b",,,,Game-board (one of two); plastic bag containing printed board games.,,,,,,,,1980s,Retailed in: Yecapixtla,,paper; plastic,,,,Height: 10.50 centimetres; Width: 9.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,,1989,Cost for both (a-b).,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1989,12.389.b",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/9_11/d44b1160_53fe_4f57_a6ea_a3bf00be7264/preview_00507970_001.jpg,game-board,"No: Am1989,12.390",,,,"Game-board; plastic bag containing printed ""La Loteria"" board game.",,,,,,,,1980s,Retailed in: Atlacomulco,,paper; plastic,,,,Height: 12.50 centimetres; Width: 9 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,,1989,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1989,12.390",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/6_11/e9869321_e515_461a_8801_a3db00b6eca9/preview_01230471_001.jpg,game-board,"No: As1959,12.1",,,,"Beadwork gaming board for 'pachisi'; cruciform with arms of equal length. Each arm consists of twenty-four squares arranged in three rows, alternately translucent red with a white central spot and translucent green with an orange central spot; these squares are separated by lines of white beadwork, which also border the four arms. In the centre of the board, in a square white space bordered by a line of translucent green beads, is a crosslet cross of translucent red beads with orange beads at the nodes. The beads are stitched together with cotton thread to form a flexible fabric.",,,,,,,,1850-1900 (about),Made in: India (pre-1947),Found/Acquired: India (North West),glass; cotton,,,beadwork,Length: 40 centimetres; Weight: 176 grammes; Width: 6.50 centimetres of arms of cross ; Width: 40 centimetres,,"Register 1959:
Beadwork games-board in shape of cross; threaded glass (?) beads forming red and green squares on white ground. From N.W.India according to old label. (AMD,5/1996).
The beads are standard glass seed beads made for trade purposes.",Carey M A 1961a / A beadwork gaming board from North-west India,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Mrs M C Kenward,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Commonwealth and Colonial Church Society,1959,,,Asia,,"As1959,12.1",,,
,game-board,"No: As1898,0703.733",,,,"Game board 'Pachisi', cross shaped game board, made of cotton; with embroidery and applique.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,cotton; wool,,,embroidered; appliqué,Length: 39.50 centimetres; Width: 36 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.733",,,
,game-board,"No: As1898,0703.734",,,,"Game board 'Pachisi', cross shaped game board, made of cotton; with embroidery and applique.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,cotton,,,woven; embroidered; appliqué,Length: 49.50 centimetres; Width: 48.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.734",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/c6510f0f_ef0e_4651_a15c_a3b601015a27/preview_00019389_001.jpg,game-board,"No: 1892,0121.1",,,,"Rectangular marble block with polished surface and incised inscription, the so-called Game of ""12 lines"" (duodecim scripta).",,,,,,,Roman,1-300,,Excavated/Findspot: Porta Portese,marble,,,incised; polished,Height: 82.55 centimetres; Width: 36.83 centimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription language: Latin Inscription quoted: column 1:
CIRCVS
CLAMOR
IANVAE
column 2:
PLENVS
INGENS
TE[ Inscription transliteration: column 1:
circus
clamor
ianuae
column 2:
plenus
ingens
te[ctae] Inscription translation: column 1:
Circus
Shout
Doors
column 2:
Full
Huge
Covers Inscription note: The right bottom corner of the board has been broken, eliminating the letters following TE.  Gatti suggests that it could have read TECTAE, in reference to the doors of the Circus being closed, or covered, while spectacles took place.","Gatti calls this a tabula lusoria, of which a further 4 had been found in, and just outside of Rome. He suggests that the first two lines are formulaic, referring to the activity of the Circus, but that the wording of all 5 boards varies in the 3rd line.
  
‘Tabula’ was usually a gambling game, and probably a later refinement of a version called ‘Duodecim Scripta’, or ’12 lines’.  Each player had 15 pieces each, which were moved around the board in opposite directions, according to the roll of three dice.  A piece resting alone in a space on the board was vulnerable to being ‘hit’.
There are three incised patterns on the centre of the board, suggesting that this is in fact a gameboard for Duodecim Scripta; these markers were removed by the later version of ‘tabula’, leaving just two rows on each side of the board.

Bibliography: 
- Gatti, G. (1887) Bullettino della Commissione Archaeologica Comunale di Roma, p. 190-191, no. 1925
- Kekulé, R. (1890) Bonner Studien, p. 237",Marseille 1991 / Jouer dans l'Antiquite,Not on display,"Exhibited:
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,"Donated by: John Savile, 1st Baron Savile of Rufford",,,,1892,,,Greek and Roman,,"1892,0121.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_7/259c328c_815a_47c5_9690_a3b70076c14e/preview_00035418_001.jpg,game-board,"No: As1898,0703.735",,,,"Game board 'Pachisi', cross shaped game board, made of cotton and velvet; with embroidery.",,,,,,,,19thC,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,silk,,,embroidered; velvet,Length: 51 centimetres; Width: 49 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.735",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_12/7c8f3852_4a9d_45d2_b4fb_a3b700d5e873/preview_00064545_001.jpg,game-board,"No: 1999,0309,0.1",,,,"Snakes and Ladders board, painted on paper.",,,,,,,,19thC(late),Made in: India (or Nepal?),,paper,,,painted,,,"For a full discussion of Indian board games see Finkel et al in, ""The Art of Contest"" (Asia Society, NY, 2004).",,Not on display,,Good,,,,,,,,,,1999,,,Asia,,"1999,0309,0.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_3/40ecaa2e_499d_41ea_9683_a3bb00348aff/preview_00293260_001.jpg,game-board; game-box,No: EA24424,,,,"Wooden game-board/box, with drawer at one end. The upper surface is marked out in raised relief with twenty squares, arranged as a block of twelve at one end, and a central line of eight at the opposite end. This was probably intended for playing the 'Game of Twenty Squares'. On the base, 36 squares are delineated in red paint.",,,,,,,New Kingdom,,,Found/Acquired: Egypt,wood,,,,Height: 6 centimetres; Weight: 1.30 kilograms; Width: 34.90 centimetres; Depth: 10.50 centimetres,,"Discussed: EB Pusch, in I L Finkel (ed), Ancient Board Games in Perspective (London 2007), 71.",Marseille 1991 / Jouer dans l'Antiquite,Not on display,"1991/2 Nov-Feb, Marseille, Musée de la Vieille Charite, Jouer dans l'Antiquité
1998/9 Oct-Jun, South Carolina, The Charleston Museum, Queens  Commoners of the New Kingdom
2001 26 Jun-23 Sep, Birmingham Gas Hall, Egypt Revealed
2012 July -September, Tokyo, Mori museum, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife
2012, October - November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead
2013, May - September, Perth, Western Australian Museum, The Book of the Dead
2016-2017 10 Oct-30 Apr, Sydney, Powerhouse Museum, Ancient Lives
2017 16 Jun-18 Oct, Hong Kong Science Museum, Ancient Lives
2017-2018 14 Nov-20 Feb, Taiwan, National Palace Museum, Ancient Lives
2018 16 Mar-22 Jul, Brisbane, Queensland Museum of Art, Ancient Lives
2019-2020 14 Sept- 28 Jun, Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Ancient Lives EXTENDED DUE TO COVID19
2020-2021, 19 Sept - 21 Mar, Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Ancient Lives
2021-2022 9 Oct - 10 Jan, Tokyo, Museum of Science and Nature, Egyptian Mummies 2",fair,,,,,,Purchased from: Rev Chauncey Murch,,,,1891,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA24424,"1891,0404.22",,,
,game-board,No: EA2497,,,,"Part of a wooden game-board(?) in the form of a lion's paw, tenon missing at foot but remains at top with 2 holes.",,,,,,,New Kingdom,,,Found/Acquired: Egypt,wood,,,,Height: 9.30 centimetres; Weight: 30 grammes; Width: 2.40 centimetres; Depth: 2.70 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,fair (incomplete),,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Salt; Purchased through: Sotheby's,,,,1835,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA2497,.2497,Miscellaneous number: BS.2497 (Birch Slip Number),,
,game-board; base,No: 91930,,,,Fragment of marble game-board or pedestal with four lines of inscription.,,,,,,,Mesopotamian,,,Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik,marble,,,,Length: 2.88 inches; Width: 3.66 inches,Inscription type: inscription Inscription note: four lines.,Joined to BM.90972 & BM.90966.,Gadd 1934a / An Egyptian game in Assyria,Not on display,,Fair; incomplete.,,,,,,,,,,1881,,,Middle East,91930,"1881,0204.14",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/3_19/1bae6ceb_d635_4fa1_af68_a3b90140adfe/preview_00220430_001.jpg,game-board; model,"No: 1933,1114.1.d",,,,"Game-board.  Burial group of earthenware figures at a gaming board. Thought to be playing game of ""Liu Bo"". Most of the dark green glaze has become irridescent through prolonged exposure to dampness..",,,,,,,Han dynasty,1stC-2ndC (circa),,Found/Acquired: China,earthenware,,,,Height: 19 centimetres Figure 1 ; Height: 19 centimetres Figure 2 ; Height: 6.80 centimetres Game-board/base only ; Width: 13.50 centimetres; Width: 15.50 centimetres; Width: 29 centimetres; Depth: 11 centimetres; Depth: 22.50 centimetres; Depth: 80 centimetres,,,Vainker 1991 / Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: From Prehistory to the Present,On display (G33),"Exhibited: 
 
2008 24 Jul-26 Aug, London, BM, 'Hadrian: Empire and Conflict' 
2009 24 Jan-19 Apr, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 'China: Journey to the East' 
2009 2 May-19 Jul, Coventry, The Herbert, 'China: Journey to the East' 
2009 1 Aug-1 Dec, Basingstoke, The Willis Museum, 'China: Journey to the East'  
2010 29 Jan-9 May, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear Museums, 'China: Journey to the East' 
2010 22 May-15 Aug, York, Yorkshire Museums Trust, 'China: Journey to the East' 
2010-2011 25 Sep-26 Jun, Manchester Museum, 'China: Journey to the East' 
2011-2012 Dec-Apr, Sheffield Museums, 'China: Journey to the East' 
2014 23 Apr-01 Aug, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2014-2015 13 Dec-15 Mar, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2015 18 Apr–28 Jun, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2015 14 Jul–6 Sep, Kyushu National Museum, Dazaifu, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2015-2016 20 Sep-11 Jan, Kobe City Museum, Kobe, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2016 13 Feb-18 Jun, National Museum of Western Australia, Perth, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2016-2017 08 Sep-29 Jan, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2017 1 Mar-31 May, National Museum of China, Beijing, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2017 28 Jun-08 Oct, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'",,,,,,,Donated by: Friends of the British Museum,,,,1933,,,Asia,,"1933,1114.1.d",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/5d812a5f_66c1_4df0_964b_a3b800ee093b/preview_01357509_001.jpg,game-board,"No: As1981,20.125.a",,,,Game board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Maldives,wood,,,,Height: 4.90 centimetres; Weight: 1.37 kilograms; Width: 70.20 centimetres; Depth: 12.10 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Dr Andrew Forbes; Purchased from: Ms Fawzia Ali,,,,1981,,,Asia,,"As1981,20.125.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_23/45c6a449_b771_4aeb_b356_a3dd017dd05b/preview_01421176_001.jpg,game-board,"No: Af1909,Ty.658",,,,"Game board made of wood (boa), cane.",,,,,Isambo; Kuba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Democratic Republic of Congo,wood; cane,,,,Height: 15 centimetres; Width: 41.50 centimetres; Depth: 30.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",Split lengthwise; indigenously repaired.,,,,,,Purchased from: Emil Torday,,,,1909,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1909,Ty.658",CDMS number: Af1909C7.658 (old CDMS no.),,
,game-board,No: 90972,,,,Fragment of aragonite game-board with three lines of inscription.,,,,,,,Mesopotamian,,,Found/Acquired: Kouyunjik (?),aragonite,,,,Length: 1.75 inches; Thickness: 1.50 inches; Width: 2.75 inches,Inscription type: inscription Inscription note: three lines.,"Joined to 1881,0204.14 (BM.91930) & BM.90966.",,Not on display,,Fair; incomplete.,,,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,90972,.90972,Other BM number: 12104 (previous big number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_18/28a2dba0_41a1_43a9_a3bc_a3b50134b515/preview_00155669_001.jpg,game-board,No: 118768,,,,Winged crouching lion decorating one end of an unfinished green marble or slate game-board.,,,,,,,Neo-Assyrian,700BC-600BC,,Excavated/Findspot: Shamash Temple,slate; marble,,,,Length: 4 inches; Width: 8.50 inches,,,"Leichty E et al 1988a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, volume VIII: Tablets from Sippar 3; De Meyer L 1980a / Tell ed-Dēr III (article by C.B.F Walker); Gadd 1934a / An Egyptian game in Assyria",Not on display,,Incomplete.,mammal,,,,,,,,,1882,,,Middle East,118768,"1882,0918,A.15",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_21/1ca231b0_261a_409c_9a02_a3b501618c98/preview_00171168_001.jpg,game-board; mancala-board,"No: Af1996,16.1.a-ai",,,,"Game-board (a) for playing oware (mancala) made of wood. Boat-shaped board with rectangular base and central storage compartment for playing pieces. Two-row board with six wide, circular holes on each side and two end holes for storing captured pieces. Central hole in upper surface of board to storage compartment. 34 cowrie shell playing pieces (b-ai).",,,,,,,,20thC(late),Made in: Ghana,Found/Acquired: Ghana,wood; cowrie shell,,,,Diameter: 17 centimetres; Height: 11.50 centimetres; Weight: 38 grammes cowrie shell playing pieces (b-ai) ; Width: 63 centimetres,,"Mancala is a generic term applied to a specific family of count-and-capture games. Mancala games are widely distributed and are played in most parts of Africa, the Middle East, Central, South and Southeast Asia, some of the Caribbean islands and parts of South America. Boards may have two, three or four rows of playing holes.
This two-row board from Ghana is used to play oware, one of the most popular forms of the game. Unusually it has cowrie shell playing pieces; more commonly, larger seeds (from the Caesalpinia bonduc shrub) are used.",,Not on display,,Fair; board is chipped and abraded at either end and around the storage compartment. Split at one side of playing surface.,,,,,,Purchased from: John Gillow; Purchased through: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,,1996,Purchased by the vendor in Ghana in Autumn 1996.,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1996,16.1.a-ai",,,
,game-board,"No: 2018,2022.1",,,,"Home-made game-board for the race game 'Sorry' with 'Snakes and Ladders' overlaid on the playing track. Square in shape but four corners are very worn, hence slightly rounded. The front is marked in three rows of squares that go right around the board, the largest near exterior edges, then two interior squares, each smaller than the other. The smallest in centre has four extensions; each having a rounded end with the word ‘HOME’ marked in red capitals. At four sides is drawn in red a long sinous snake in red, with the word ‘START’ adjacent. There are two ladders towards each corner, indicating mounting the ladder, towards the centre.  There are four arrows, one on each side, near the ‘START’ sign. In the centre in black is the date ‘2009’. This is partially covered over with words in red ‘RENEW 2011 (date difficult to read and may be incorrect); underneath which are two further words that appear to be ‘20 February’ or similar. Beside the date in the centre, the surface of the board has a gash.",,,,,I-Kiribati,,,2009,Made in: Abaiang (likely),Found/Acquired: Abaiang,wood,,,,Height: 53 centimetres; Width: 61.70 centimetres,,"The donor of this game-board advised that he was told by a lady in her 80s that it was conceived in Abaiang, [part of Tarawa South], Kiribati, where he encountered the board in December 2017. She claimed it had been invented and played in Abaiang at least since the 1950s, but was not common elsewhere. The players usually call Snakes & Ladders by the name ""Ludo"" and it has become more popular than the Ludo game itself, also known as ""Ludo"". There are a number of different rules different from the regular Sorry! game known in Kiribati (see John McLeod, The Playing Card). The game uses a full deck (i.e. it includes the 6 and 9 commonly excluded in Sorry!); 6: move 6 squares ahead; 7: move 7 squares ahead (normally this card allows you to split a move into any combination that makes 7); 9: split your move into parts that make 9 (as traditionally with a 7 card); 11: you can exchange a piece with another one except those in the innermost circuit; 13: (Sorry! card) again you cannot touch the pieces that entered the innermost circuit.","de Groot 2018 / Kiribati Game Development:Cultural Transmission, Communities of Creation, and Marketing",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Alex de Groot,,,,2018,The donor was given the game-board by two people in Kiribati. Further details in object file.,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"2018,2022.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2017_8/17_15/d63be997_915e_4d23_8bd6_a7d200fd2537/preview_WCO24357__1.jpg,game-board,No: 120834,The Royal Game of Ur (Series),,,"Game-board; wooden, originally hollow; top covered with 20 inlaid square shell plaques; edges made of small plaques and strips, some sculptured with an eye and some with rosettes; on the back are three lines of triangular shell ornamental inlays set as part of the modern reconstruction.",,,,,,,Early Dynastic III,2600BC-2400BC,Made in: Iraq,Excavated/Findspot: Royal Cemetery (Ur),wood; shell,,,inlaid,Height: 2.40 centimetres; Length: 30.10 centimetres; Width: 5.70 centimetres narrow part of b ; Width: 11 centimetres,,"Circumstances of discovery and consolidation in the field described by Woolley (and quoted by Grunfeld) as follows: ""The board lay face upwards in the soil. With the decay of the wood the whole of the encrustation of the upper surface had sunk down into the void so left, while the strip-work along the sides remained sticking up above it; this collapse had resulted in the dislocation of much of the fine mosaic border, and the regularity of the surface was disturbed, the shell squares often lying at an angle and the lapis strips overlapping them; further, the end of the larger section had been broken and the three last plaques (all except the corner of that on the left, which was still attached) and the right-hand plaque of the next row lay separated from each other and half an inch or more away from the main board, and the border and edging here had been scattered. It was this broken end that we found first and probably some pieces of the strip edging were overlooked by us; when the presence of the object was recognized we worked along it a square or so at a time, pouring hot wax over it as we went, and finally the whole was secured with waxed cloth and lifted. It has not been taken to pieces and remade. The inside was cleaned and covered with waxed muslin and the cloth and wax removed from the face and then it was placed face downwards on a sheet of glass and by applying heat we were able to push the component parts down into their places; the three loose plaques were replaced in the order in which they were found, but nothing was done to restore the missing part of the border and edging. The red and blue spots inlaid in the shell plaques and petals of the flowers were loose in their sockets when found, but were fixed by the wax poured over them and very few of them have been disturbed and replaced [n. A few floated up in the liquid wax but could be at once pushed down into their holes]"". The object was reconstructed by the WAA conservator I G Tremayne following sagging through a build-up of intense heat in the gallery (Report to Trustees 5 July 1961).
An important point to note, often forgotten, is that this was a hollow box and not a solid board: it was therefore a much more delicate item than the present reconstruction suggests and the interior of the box contaiined the pieces and the dice, just as the silver version did when excavated in another grave. Moreover, there are several other boxed sets for this game found in this Cemetery: the others are in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad and on display (viewed 2018). Another version carved entirely of wood was excavated in a grave at Shahr-i Sokhta in eastern Iran, and inlaid versions of a yet different style excavated in the 'Royal Cemetery' at Gonur depe in present-day southern Turkmenistan. The origins of all are thought to lie in the Indus valley.; Various replica versions, more or less based on the original, have been made and marketed, for instance by BMCompany and Ludibundus (Christmas 1980 sale catalogue).",Woolley et al 1934a / The Royal Cemetery; Barnett & Wiseman 1960a / Fifty masterpieces of Ancient Near Eastern Art; Grunfeld F V 1968a / The mystery game of Ur; Du Ry C J 1969a / Art of the Ancient Near and Middle East; Marseille 1991 / Jouer dans l'Antiquite; Finkel I L 1995a / Board games and fortune telling: a case from antiquity; Aruz & Wallenfels 2003a / Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus; Lhôte J-M 2005a / Hypothése concenant le tablier du jeu royal d'Ur; Becker A 2007a / The Royal Game of Ur; Finkel I L 2007a / On the Rules for the Royal Game of Ur,On display (G56/dc16),"Exhibited:
2014-2015 13 Dec-15 Mar, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2014 23 Apr-01 Aug, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
2012-2013 28 Nov-18 Mar, Paris, Musee National du Moyen Age, 'Jeux de la Babylone antique a l'occident medieval' 
2006 Jul, BM, Gallery 3 'The Royal Game of Ur'
2003 5 May-17 Aug, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Art of the First Cities'
1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.14
1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.14
1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.14
G56/Early Mesopotamia gallery/case 16.
Babylonian Room",,flower (?),,,,,Division of Finds: Department of Antiquities of Iraq,,,,1928,,"Objects allotted to the British Museum from the Ur excavations, season 1926-1927.",Middle East,120834,"1928,1009.378",Excavation/small finds number: U.9000 (excavation number),,
,game-board,No: EA65229,,,,"Limestone game-board; one side divided into squares with hieroglyphs in bottom three, other side divided into smaller squares.",,,,,,,New Kingdom,,,Found/Acquired: Egypt,limestone,,,,Height: 2.30 centimetres; Weight: 396 grammes; Width: 13.50 centimetres; Depth: 10.50 centimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription script: hieroglyphic Inscription note: Incised,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1994 Jan-Mar, Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, Ancient Egypt",fair (incomplete),,,,,,Bequeathed by: Sir Robert Ludwig Mond,,,,1939,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA65229,"1939,0324.92",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/16_9/5ff55f38_e833_4034_942e_a3c60095180b/preview_00990999_001.jpg,game-board; game-box,"No: Af2004,06.1.a-b",,,,"Monopoly set; made of paper; a) Monopoly game-board mounted in wooden frame with glass covering; b) cardboard game-box containing paper money, properties, plastic playing pieces and written instructions for playing game.",,,,,,,,20thC,Made in: Egypt,,paper; wood; glass; plastic; cardboard,,,,"Height: 3.50 centimetres game-box ; Height: 1.50 centimetres; Width: 45.50 centimetres game-board ; Width: 21 centimetres game-box ; Depth: 48 centimetres game-board ; Depth: 38 centimetres game-box ",,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Dr Irving Finkel,,,,2004,On behalf of Dr. John MacGinnis,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af2004,06.1.a-b",,,
,game-board,No: 91897,,,,"Part of limestone game-board carved around the edge in low relief with a scene involving a palm tree, walking figure, galloping horses and an animal at the front.",,,,,,,Mesopotamian,,,Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik,limestone,,,carved,Length: 2.38 inches; Thickness: 1.25 inches; Width: 1.50 inches,,,"Searight, Reade & Finkel 2008a / Assyrian Stone Vessels and related material in the British Museum",Not on display,,Fair; blackened surfaces,,,,,,,,,,1881,,,Middle East,91897,"1881,0204.20",,,
,game-board,No: EA21576,,,,Game-board made of ivory and wood.,,,,,,,New Kingdom,,,Found/Acquired: Egypt,ivory; wood,,,,Height: 6.30 centimetres; Weight: 742 grammes; Width: 32.70 centimetres; Depth: 9.20 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,fair (incomplete),,,,,,Donated by: Jesse Haworth,,,,1887,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA21576,"1887,1203.3",,,
,game-board,No: 90966,,,,"Fragment of aragonite game-board; part of pedestal for human-headed bull; engraved on top with rosettes, and on one side with a winged figure.",,,,,,,Mesopotamian,,,Found/Acquired: Kouyunjik (?),aragonite,,,,Length: 2 inches; Thickness: 1.50 inches; Width: 2.25 inches,,Joined to BM.91930 & BM.90972.,,Not on display,,Fair; incomplete.,flower,,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,90966,.90966,Other BM number: 12098 (previous big number),,
,game-board; game-piece,"No: 2013,3032.1",,,,Japanese go game consisting of wooden board in two sections and stone or ceramic black and red pieces.,,,,,,,Heisei Era,20th century,Made in: Japan,,wood; ceramic; stone,,,,,,,,Not on display,,,go; sport/pastime,,,,,,Funded by: British Museum Friends,,,2013,Acquired by Irving Finkel.,,Asia,,"2013,3032.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/11_10/8291e4fb_5284_41bc_be0f_a3e000a746a6/preview_01574730_001.jpg,game-board,"No: Af1984,14.180",,,,Game board made of wood.,,,,,Betsimisaraka,,,,,Found/Acquired: Miakara,wood,,,,Height: 10.60 centimetres; Width: 86.70 centimetres; Depth: 33.10 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Dr B John Mack,1984,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1984,14.180",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_14/a88ca122_1b9c_4e6d_a9a1_a3e100f31cec/preview_00106537_001.jpg,game-board,No: 123333,,,,"Large fragment from a stone gaming board of red mottled marble, the track for the pieces being indicated by holes, some marked with rosettes,(five large and ten small); edge of the board decorated with a frieze relief showing winged and human figures, and quadrupeds; sometimes called 'Game of 58 Holes', a race game for two players, played with stick pieces which moved round the track at the throw of a dice; inscription.
Large fragment from a red mottled marble gaming board: the track for the pieces is indicated by holes, some marked with rosettes. The edge of the board is decorated with a relief frieze showing winged and human figures, and quadrupeds. It is inscribed in cuneiform, revealing that it was the property of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria.",,,,Esarhaddon,,,Neo-Assyrian,680BC-669BC,,Excavated/Findspot: Nineveh (Iraq) (?);  Excavated/Findspot: Nimrud (?),marble,,,drilled,Height: 12 centimetres; Thickness: 7.50 centimetres; Width: 15 centimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription language: Akkadian Inscription script: cuneiform Inscription translation: ""Palace of Esarhaddon, the great king, the mighty king, king of all, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, 
son of Sennacherib, the mighty king, king of all, king of Assyria,
son of Sargon, the mighty king, etc"" (Gadd, reconstructed) Inscription note: Indicates that the board was the property of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria.","The game, sometimes called the 'game of fifty-eight holes', was a race game for two players, played with stick pieces which moved round the track at the throw of dice. The game first appears in Egypt  before 2000 BC, and was popular there and across the Ancient Near East throughout the second and first millennia BC. Many discoveries show it to have been played at all levels of society. The present example is one of several evidently expensive and prized boards excavated by Layard. 
Part of N.1676
Compare with 1880,0719.208
Bibliography:
C. J. Gadd, ‘An Egyptian game in Assyria’. ‘Iraq’ 1 (1934), 47.",Curtis & Reade 1994a / Tesoros de asiria en el Museo Britanico: Arte e Imperio; Gadd 1934a / An Egyptian game in Assyria; Curtis & Reade 1995a / Art and empire: treasures from Assyria in the British Museum,Not on display,"Exhibited:
2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
2012-2013 28 Nov-18 Mar, Paris, Musee National du Moyen Age, 'Jeux de la Babylone antique a l'occident medieval' 
2008-2009 21 Sept-4 Jan, Boston, MFA, 'Art and Empire'
2007 2 Apr-30 Sept, Alicante, MARQ Museum, 'Art and Empire'
2006 1 Jul-7 Oct, Shanghai Museum, 'Art and Empire'",Joined to N.1676,animal; flower,Named in inscription: Esarhaddon,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,123333,N.1673,,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_10/6ff5326c_20e1_4090_97b6_a3b700b09b2b/preview_00049935_001.jpg,game-board,No: 123331,,,,Fired clay game-board for the game of 58 holes; quadrangular; curved sides; some of the holes surrounded by circles.,,,,,,,Late Babylonian,700BC-550BC,,Excavated/Findspot: Ur (city - archaic),fired clay,,,incised,Length: 4 inches; Thickness: 0.94 inches; Width: 2.69 inches,,,Gadd 1934a / An Egyptian game in Assyria; Marseille 1991 / Jouer dans l'Antiquite,Not on display,"Exhibited:
2012 28 Nov - 2013 18 Mar, Paris, Musee National du Moyen Age, 'Jeux de la Babylone antique a l'occident medieval'
1991 22 Nov-1992 16 Feb, France, Marseille, Musee de la Vieille Charite, Jeux et Jouets dans l’Antiquite",Part of the upper surface missing but appears stable; hairline crack on one side (assessment 1991).,,,,,,,,,,1859,,"C.J. Gadd states that was found at Ur in 1853/54 during excavations of J.E. Taylor but register states, correctly, that was obtained by John George Taylor (IA 24).",Middle East,123331,"1859,1014.53",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_16/f1073145_37e2_4fa8_977d_a3da01137281/preview_01216862_001.jpg,game-board,No: EPH-ME.91,,,,Modern game version of 'The Royal Game of Ur'; boxed set (open).,Made by: The British Museum Company,,,,,,,1991,Made in: England (?),,cardboard,,,,Height: 7 centimetres; Length: 33 centimetres; Width: 14 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Opened.,,,Associated with: Ur (city - archaic),,Royal Game of Ur,Donated by: Dr Irving Finkel,,,,1998 (11 May),,,Middle East,,EPH-ME.91,,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_21/34feb8a9_4ff4_4f6d_bdc7_a3dd0167a7a1/preview_01413612_001.jpg,game-board,No: As.7168.ah,,,,Game board made of paper.,,,,,,,,,,,paper,,,,Length: 47.50 centimetres; Weight: 14 grammes; Width: 39.50 centimetres; Depth: 0.10 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Col Sir Edward Bosc Sladen,,,,1871,,,Asia,,As.7168.ah,CDMS number: As1871C1.7168ah (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: As1871C0510.48,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_16/8636aca2_7c76_4385_a71d_a3b6010d49b2/preview_00022682_001.jpg,game-board,"No: 2003,1201.1",,,,"Stone game-board; carved from dark green chlorite and lightly polished; drilled holes and lightly carved connecting lines, designed for the Game of 58 Holes and with unusual links between the inner and outer rows of holes.",,,,,,,,,Made in: Iran (?),Found/Acquired: Iran (said to be from),chlorite,,,carved; incised; drilled; polished,Length: 9.50 centimetres; Weight: 159 grammes; Thickness: 1.80 centimetres; Width: 6 centimetres,,The use of a dark green chlorite suggests it may have been made in eastern Iran.,,Not on display,"Exhibited: 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board",Complete,,,,,,Purchased from: Simon Harper,,,,2003,Said to have been acquired by the vendor's father in the 1950s; deposited on 28 November 2003 (ANE deposit-book entry 618). Acquired with the BM Board Games Fund.,,Middle East,,"2003,1201.1",,,
,game-board,"No: 2001,0529,0.1",,,,"Game board, painted on cloth. A variant of the Snakes & Ladders game, without the ladders.",,,,,,,,20thC(early) (?),Made in: India,,cotton,,,painted,,,"For a full discussion of Indian board games, see Finkel et al in, ""The Art of Contest"" (Asia Society, NY, 2004).",,Not on display,"Exhibited: 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",good,,,,,,,,,,2001,,,Asia,,"2001,0529,0.1",,,
,game-board,"No: 2004,0414.1",,,,"Pachisi game ""board"".  Four rectangular pieces of red cloth sewn to a central square piece to form a cross shape.  Decorated with glass beads in white, red, green, yellow and blue.  Each ""arm"" of the cross conains a grid of 24 white squares.  Some are marked with crosses whilst the majority contain flowers.  In the centre, small flowers and one large flower.  The board is bordered by bands of red, yellow and blue beads.",Made by: Saurashtra (?),,,,,,,20thC,,,cotton; glass,,,sewn,,,"Part of a set, Pachisi game board, 16 counters and bag (2004.4-14.1-18)",,Not on display,,Good,flower,,,,,Donated by: T Richard Blurton,,,,2004,,,Asia,,"2004,0414.1",,,
,game-board,"No: As1997,Q.121",,,,Game board made of purple and yellow cloth.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,textile,,,woven; appliqué,Length: 88 centimetres; Width: 88 centimetres,,"Compare e.g As1898,0703.733 to 735.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,,,Found in Asia collections in 1997 apparently unnumbered and unregistered. Means and date of acquisition unknown. 		 Acquisition details unknown.,,Asia,,"As1997,Q.121",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_15/ce842635_d51d_4a84_b0d4_a3e100f956a1/preview_00108050_001.jpg,game-board,"No: Am1988,08.367.c",,,,"Game board; two boards made of cardboard, with checkerboard printed on one side, and grid of squares with images corresponding to playing cards (Am1988,08.367b).",,,,,,,,1980s,Retailed in: Xalapa,,cardboard,,,printed,Height: 30 centimetres; Width: 30 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,,1988,Cost for all five sets (a-e).,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1988,08.367.c",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_12/33a0319a_cfed_457c_a2cd_a3b700d5e47b/preview_00064544_001.jpg,game-board,"No: 1995,1013.1",,,,"Game board made of small glass beads sewn onto a background cloth. The background is white but red, blue and yellow have also been used.",,,,,,,,19thC,Lustred in: India,,textile; glass,,,sewn,,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited: 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,Purchased from: Sven Gahlin,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1995,,,Asia,,"1995,1013.1",,,
,game-board,No: 90967,,,,Fragment of zoned alabaster game-board; part of relief frieze on edge.,,,,,,,Mesopotamian,,,Excavated/Findspot: Nimrud (?),alabaster,,,,Length: 2 inches; Thickness: 0.75 inches; Width: 1.50 inches,,Possibly part of BM.123333.,,Not on display,,Fair; incomplete.,,,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,90967,.90967,Other BM number: 12099 (previous big number),,
,game-board,No: EPH-ME.637,,,,"Game-board set for the board game known as 'Ascot'; printed paper, cardboard and plastic; boxed.",,,,,,,,1950 (circa),Made in: France,,plastic; cardboard; paper,,,printed,Length: 50.50 centimetres; Width: 36 centimetres,,"The board game 'Ascot' is a French version of the English board game 'Totopoly'.  The English version was manufactured by John Waddington of Leeds UK from 1938 until about 1984. Several different editions were made abroad under license, such as the present French example. Totopoly is a horse racing game which involves moving horses around a board according to a throw of the dice. Bets may be placed on the horses with the paper money supplied with the game, and paper prize money is also paid out to the wining horses. In the English edition the horses are named after the winners of the Lincolnshire Handicap between 1926 and 1937. Although Totopoly never attained the popularity of its sister game Monopoly, it was widely distributed and well known and reflects the keen interest in horse-racing in Northern Europe.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
2012 24 May-30 Sep, London, BM, 'The horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot'",Fair,equestrian,,,,,Purchased from: eBay,,,,2012,,,Middle East,,EPH-ME.637,,,
,game-board,No: EPH-ME.636,,,,"Game-board set for Escalado board game; printed paper, cardboard and plastic; boxed.",,,,,,,,1997,,,plastic; cardboard; paper,,,printed,Length: 48 centimetres; Width: 30.50 centimetres,,"Escalado is a horse-racing game that was made by the Chad Valley Toy Company of Birmingham UK from 1928 onward, and later by Waddingtons. In this game model horses race down a track which is made to vibrate by turning a handle. Players bet on the different horses, and the player who has the highest amount of token money at the end of an agreed number of races is the winner.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
2012 24 May-30 Sep, London, BM, 'The horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot'",,equestrian,,,,,Purchased from: eBay,,,,2012,,,Middle East,,EPH-ME.636,,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_17/53f30b84_419b_4a69_acf8_a3e1011f8784/preview_00117648_001.jpg,game-board,"No: Am1989,12.389.a",,,,Game-board (one of two); plastic bag containing printed board games.,,,,,,,,1980s,Retailed in: Yecapixtla,,paper; plastic,,,,Height: 10.50 centimetres; Width: 9 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,,1989,Cost for both (a-b).,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1989,12.389.a",,,
,game-board,No: 139515,,,,Red and white marble calf from game-board; damaged.,,,,,,,,,Made in: Asia,,marble,,,,Height: 3.50 centimetres; Length: 6 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Fair; damaged.,cattle,,,,,,,,,1983,,"In old collections, apparently previously unregistered. Most probably acquired before 1884, from Rassam in Babylonia or early Assyrian excavations, but many of wholly indeterminate origin.",Middle East,139515,"1983,0101.58",,,
,game-board,No: EA34927,,,,"Blue glazed composition game-board with remains of eighteen squares, two in centre row marked with a black cross. One end and parts of edges missing. Squares bounded by a raised border, outside which is a convex curve to a flat plinth at the edge.",,,,,,,Third Intermediate; Late Period,,,Found/Acquired: Tell Basta (Bubastis),glazed composition,,,,Height: 4 centimetres; Weight: 1.40 kilograms; Width: 23.50 centimetres; Depth: 22.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,incomplete; repaired from four pieces,,,,,,Purchased from: Rev Greville John Chester,,,,1880,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA34927,"1880,0531.9",,,
,game-board; textile,"No: As1893,1123.144.a",,,,"Pachisi board, patchwork cloth cross, game board.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Maldives,cotton; wool,,,patchwork; felted,Length: 72 centimetres; Width: 72 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Mr P E Radley,,,,1893,,,Asia,,"As1893,1123.144.a","CDMS number: As1893C1123.144a (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: As1979,Q.28",,
,game-board,"No: 1932,1008.38",,,,Fragment of highly polished black stone game-board.,,,,,,,Mesopotamian,,,Excavated/Findspot: Ur (city - archaic),stone,,,polished,Length: 3 centimetres; Thickness: 0.60 centimetres; Width: 1.80 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Fair; incomplete.,,,,,,Division of Finds: Department of Antiquities of Iraq,,,,1932,,"Antiquities assigned to the British Museum from the excavations at Ur, season 1931-1932.",Middle East,,"1932,1008.38",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_16/85ebc886_0eaf_4dfc_9c35_a3da0113442e/preview_01216846_001.jpg,game-board,No: EPH-ME.506,,,,"Boxed set for a strategy game called ""Babylon"", with cover image adapted from the stele of Hammurabi and purportedly showing Hammurabi playing this game; moulded coloured plastic pieces with cuneiform inscriptions in printed cotton bag in laminated cardboard box.",Made by: FoxMind Games (and designed by),,,,,,,2010,Designed in: Netherlands,Found/Acquired: Jerusalem,cardboard; plastic; cotton,,,printed (packaging); mould-made (gaming-pieces),Height: 10.90 centimetres; Thickness: 3.20 centimetres; Width: 11 centimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription language: English; Inscription type: inscription Inscription language: Hebrew,,,Not on display,,Fair; new,,Representation of: Hammurapi,Named in inscription: Babylon,,,Donated by: Dr Irving Finkel,,,,2010,Acquired by the donor while on a trip to Jerusalem in 2010.,,Middle East,,EPH-ME.506,,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_16/551aa62e_8497_40c4_b0d7_a3da0113a32b/preview_01216835_001.jpg,game-board,No: EPH-ME.3,,,,"Reproduction boxed set of ""The Royal Game of Ur""; in presentation box.",,,,,,,,1976,,,paper,,,,Height: 4 centimetres; Length: 46 centimetres; Width: 13 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Fair,,,Associated with: Ur (city - archaic),,,Donated by: David Mayo,,,,1990 (27 September),,,Middle East,,EPH-ME.3,,,
,game-board,No: 138636,,,,Fragment of white and purple marble game-board; carved in relief.,,,,,,,Neo-Assyrian,,,Excavated/Findspot: Nineveh (Iraq),marble,,,,Height: 2.60 centimetres; Width: 3 centimetres; Depth: 2.85 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Fair; incomplete.,,,,,,,,,,1932,,Excavation season 1931-1932.,Middle East,138636,"1932,1212.1169",,,
,game-board,No: EA38429,,,,"Fragment from a wooden game-board with parts of two original edges; the other sides destroyed by burning. The upper side bears remains of three rows of incised squares containing hieroglyphic signs. The underside also bears three rows of squares, three of which are decorated with a star-pattern in a circle",,,,,,,New Kingdom,,,Found/Acquired: Egypt,wood,,,incised,Height: 1.50 centimetres; Weight: 226 grammes; Width: 34.50 centimetres; Depth: 8 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead",poor; incomplete,,,,,,Donated by: Sir Robert Ludwig Mond,,,,1903,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA38429,"1903,1219.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/20_11/0559dc1a_4db9_4bd5_bdeb_a3e900bd0935/preview_YCA76895.jpg,game-board; platter,No: EA22323,,,,"A circular pottery platter, reconstructed from four fragments with two small parts missing. The central part of the upper surface is scored with a pattern of lines in a grid-pattern of 10 x 3 squares, for use as a game-board. This pattern was incised after firing. The platter is made from a low-fired red-brown siltware fabric containing sand and grit temper. The surface was covered by a pale cream slip, which has worn off in places. The edge of the platter is rounded and the underside is uneven.
Number and distribution of squares suggest that the object is a board for the traditional Egyptian senet-game.",,,,,,,26th Dynasty,,,Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana,pottery,,,slipped; incised,Height: 2.50 centimetres; Weight: 1.60 kilograms; Width: 31.50 centimetres; Depth: 31.50 centimetres,,"The ""large plate scored up into 3x10 squares very roughly"" mentioned by W.M.F. Petrie, Tanis ii, Nebesheh and Defenneh, p. 74 § 71.
also cited  by E. Pusch, Das Senet-Brettspiel im alten Ägypten, MÄS 38, 1979, p. 370-371, § 78, N° 69b and by P.A. Piccione, The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its Significance for Egyptian Religion, Diss. Chicago, 1990, UMI Diss. Services, Ann, Arbor, 1990, p. 440, N° E030.
See also London, BM, EA 23802, 23803 & Boston, MFA, RES 87.148 (deaccessioned)",Petrie 1888 / Tanis. Part II. Nebesheh (Am) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes); Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town,Not on display,,Incomplete; fair (worn),,,,,,Donated by: Egypt Exploration Fund,,,,1887,,Excavated May 1886.,Egypt and Sudan,EA22323,"1887,0101.1261",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/17_20/06debb24_01ab_4539_b4df_a3e6015a0c3c/preview_01610535_001.jpg,game-board; mancala-board,"No: Af1997,23.1",,,,Two-row game-board (mancala-board) made from solid piece of wood. The board has 26 playing holes with one small and one large storage hole at either end.,,,,,,,,20thC(late),Made in: Kenya (?),Found/Acquired: Kenya (?),wood,,,,Height: 5 centimetres; Width: 100.80 centimetres; Depth: 10.50 centimetres,,"The purchase of this game-board was funded by the British Museum Society Game Board Fund (held by Dr Irving Finkel, Department of the Ancient Near East). This board was acquired during a period of research and preparation prior to the installation of the temporary exhibition: 'Count and Capture' at the Museum of Mankind, Burlington Gardens in 1997.",,Not on display,,Good. Some non-mobile splits. Base of the board has gouges and abraded areas.,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1997,23.1",,,
,game-board,"No: 1880,0719.208",,,,"Large game-board carved from zoned alabaster, part of the lower surface and curved end, with frieze of relief figures.",,,,,,,,,,Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik,alabaster,,,carved,Height: 8.25 centimetres; Length: 8.89 centimetres; Width: 5.71 centimetres,,Compare with N.1673 (BM.123333).,Bezold 1896a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,,"1880,0719.208",Miscellaneous number: 386 (Rassam Inventory number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_14/5ecd3657_0eeb_4d62_a60b_a3b600ee95c4/preview_00014417_001.jpg,game-board,No: EA66216,,,,"A circular game board: of pale yellow limestone, standing on a low circular base. The upper surface is carved with a spiral pattern of square projections and hollows, in a formalised representation of the coils of a snake, with the head at the centre. This table, which is in a good state of preservation, was designed for playing a game known in Egyptian as 'Mehen'.",,,,,,,Early Dynastic (Egypt),,,Found/Acquired: Egypt,limestone,,,carved,Height: 7 centimetres; Weight: 16.80 kilograms; Width: 37 millimetres; Depth: 37 centimetres,,"Gaming pieces in the form of lions and marbles were used in this game, see J. E. Quibell,  'Excavations at Saqqara, 1911-12 : the tomb of Hesy' (Cairo, 1913), 19-20 and pl. XI.
This kind of game board is represented with the name in tombs of the Old Kingdom, see W. M. F. Petrie, 'Medum' (London, 1892), pl.XIII; H. Junker, 'Giza Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften etc.' (Vienna, 1929-1955) V, abb. 9. Similar objects of Early Dynastic date are known, W. M. F. Petrie, 'Naqada and Ballas' (Warminster, 1974), pl.XLIII, 2; W. M. F. Petrie, ‘Amulets’, London (1914), pl-XLVII, 96f; E. Amélineau, ‘Les Nouvelles Fouilles d’Abydos’ III, (1897-8), pl.XLVII, 8-11;A. Scharff, ‘Die Altertümer der Vor – und Frühzeit Ägyptens’ II (Berlin, 1929-31), no. 274 and pl.33; ‘Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’  Oct. 1959, 63. The game itself is discussed in H. Junker, 'Giza Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften etc.' (Vienna, 1929-1955) V, 36-8; P. Montet, ‘Chronique d’Égypte’ 30, no. 60 (1955), 189-97; H. Ranke, 'Das altägyptische Schlangenspiel', 'Sitz. der Heidelberger Akad. der Wiss.', 1920, 4 Abth.; W. M. F. Petrie, 'Objects of daily use with over 1800 figures from University College, London' (London 1927), 56; J. Vandier, 'Manuel d'Archeologie egyptienne' IV , 486-96. 
Bibliography:
A. F. Shore, 'British Museum Quarterly' 26 (London, 1962-3), 88-91 and pl. XXXIIIa.",Spencer 1980 / Early Dynastic Objects,On display (G64/dc10),"Exhibited:
2001 26 Jun-23 Sep, Birmingham Gas Hall, Egypt Revealed
2012 Nov. Paris, Cluny,  Les Jeux de la Babylone a l'Occident Medieval.",good (surface conserved),,,,,,Purchased from: Spink & Son Ltd,,,,1961,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA66216,"1961,0408.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_12/53409de6_5b84_4d23_bbdd_a3dd00cd74f1/preview_01360645_001.jpg,game-board,"No: As1893,1123.98",,,,Game board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Maldives,wood,,,,Height: 7.30 centimetres; Weight: 1.56 kilograms; Width: 65 centimetres; Depth: 11 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Mr P E Radley,,,,1893,,,Asia,,"As1893,1123.98","CDMS number: As1893C1123.98 (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: As1972,Q.3062",,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_17/4659f034_d06e_4a49_ade4_a3b8011b4fe3/preview_00200323_001.jpg,game-board,"No: 1991,0720.1",,,,"Fired clay game-board; incised with lines and perforated with holes prior to firing; used to play the game of 58 holes, also known as 'hounds and jackals' or 'the palm tree game'.",,,,,,,Iron Age,1300BC-900BC (about),Made in: Iran (?),Excavated/Findspot: Iran (?),fired clay,,,incised; perforated,Thickness: 1.20 - 3.20 centimetres; Length: 24.50 centimetres; Weight: 726.50 grammes; Width: 11.80 centimetres,,"Sampled by Nicholas Debenham for thermoluminescence dating prior to acquisition. The gaming-board was intended for the playing of the so-called 'game of 58 holes', also known as 'hounds and jackals' or 'the palm tree game'. This was very popular throughout the Near East during the 2nd and early 1st Millennia BC. A related fired clay example was excavated in a grave at Tepe Sialk in central Iran but was painted red (Marseille 1991, cat. 259 = Louvre, AO 19438).",Neumark 1991 / Selected Acquisitions: May to July,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1995-2005 17 Nov-14 Dec, BM, G52/IRAN/24
1994, BM, G49/IRAN",Fair,,,,,,Purchased from: Saeed Motamed,,,,1991,,,Middle East,,"1991,0720.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2018_5/3_10/7d55e412_95bb_4a87_95d3_a8d500b3ac9c/preview_Front_of_game_board.jpg,game-board,No: OA+.2646,,,,"Game board, made of wood, inlaid with ivory or bone, ebony and green paste.",,,,,,,Islamic,,,,ivory; bone; ebony,,,inlaid,Height: 59 centimetres; Width: 54 centimetres,,,,On display (G42/dc12),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Middle East,,OA+.2646,,,
,game-board,No: 139946,,,,Game-board; carved from white limestone.,,,,,,,Late Babylonian,7thC BC,Made in: Asia,,limestone,,,carved,Length: 7 centimetres; Thickness: 2.90 centimetres; Width: 4.20 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhuibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games Across the World'",Fair; incomplete.,,,,,,Purchased from: Mrs W C Holroyd,,,,1985,"Formerly owned by her father, but circumstances of acquisition unknown.",,Middle East,139946,"1985,0608.4",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_16/26acb257_2384_4fd1_81b5_a3da0113a8f2/preview_01216837_001.jpg,game-board,No: EPH-ME.504,,,,"Printed game-board and pieces for ""Risk: Godstorm. The game of earthly domination and beyond"", with the featured regions including Babylonia.",,,,,,,,2005 (circa),Published in: USA,,paper,,,printed,Height: 26.60 centimetres; Thickness: 8.70 centimetres; Width: 26.60 centimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription language: English; Inscription type: inscription Inscription language: Turkmen,,,Not on display,,Fair; unopened,,,Named in inscription: South Iraq,,,Donated by: Dr Irving Finkel,,,,2010,Acquired in circa 2005.,,Middle East,,EPH-ME.504,,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/13_11/8ce78100_d973_47ea_a1cb_a3c300c17cff/preview_00795073_001.jpg,game-board; platter,No: EA23802,,,,"Fragments of a rectangular game-board made of coarse red siltware pottery. The fragments have been joined to form two larger pieces, one consisting of six fragments and the other of three. Parts of the original edges of the object are preserved, showing either a slight curve or a straight cut. The irregular lower surface shows circular traces confirming that the gaming-board has been made from an original round platter made on a potter's wheel, cut on two long sides before the firing. The upper surface of the board was scored with a grid pattern of originally 10 x 3 squares, a maximum of 21 being now preserved, both items together. The grooves between the squares were cut post-firing and have cut through the pale cream surface slip. This slip is also present on the plain underside. A small area of the larger piece has been made up in modern material. The two pieces are not be connected but their relative position can be infered almost exactly from the scratched lines on the upper surface and the circular traces on the lower surface. Number and distribution of squares suggest that the object is a board for egyptian senet-game.",,,,,,,26th Dynasty,,,Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana,pottery,,,slipped,Length: 26 centimetres larger piece ; Length: 34.50 centimetres object both fragments together ; Length: 12.30 centimetres smaller piece ; Thickness: 1.70 centimetres; Thickness: 1.80 centimetres; Width: 15.20 centimetres; Width: 8.90 centimetres,,"The ""draught-board made of a rectangular slab of terra-cotta marked in 3x10 squares, found broken up, with some draughtmen made of rounded chips of pottery, in chamber 9"" mentioned by W.M.F. Petrie, Tanis ii, Nebesheh and Defenneh, p. 74 § 71. The mentioned draughtmen are very probably BM EA 23835, 23836, 23837 & 23838.
The Findspot number 9 has been scratched into the object.
Also cited by E. Pusch, Das Senet-Brettspiel im alten Ägypten, MÄS 38, 1979, p. 370-371, § 78, N° 69a  and by P.A. Piccione, The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its Significance for Egyptian Religion, Diss. Chicago, 1990, UMI Diss. Services, Ann, Arbor, 1990, p. 440, N° E035.
See also the gaming-boards London, BM, EA 23803, 22323 & Boston, MFA, RES 87.148 (deaccessioned).",Petrie 1888 / Tanis. Part II. Nebesheh (Am) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes); Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town,Not on display,,fair - rim chipped,,,,,,Donated by: Egypt Exploration Fund,,,,1887,,"Excavated May 1886. Includes 1887,0101.1409",Egypt and Sudan,EA23802,"1887,0101.811",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/20_11/3ce3e140_ff50_42f4_904e_a3e900bc8ccd/preview_YCA67945.jpg,game-board; platter,No: EA23803,,,,"Part of redware pottery dish or platter with a rim; white slip into which grid and other motifs have been roughly scored on the upper surface, to use it as a game-board. Ten squares are preserved, distributed in at least three rows. Comparison with similar items, same provenance, suggest that a grid of probably 3 x 10 squares was scored in the middle of the platter. Each of the 3 squares on the right side shows a hieroglyphic sign : from top to bottom, 1) a hawk facing to the right, perhaps on a stand, 2) a sign formed by two horizontal lines crossed by an oblique one, and 3) a part of an indeterminate sign with a vertical line on the left.
Number and distribution of squares and  signs attest that the item is a gaming-board for traditional egyptian senet-game.",,,,,,,26th Dynasty,,,Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana,pottery,,,slipped; incised,"Diameter: 27 centimetres when the item was complete ; Length: 13.20 centimetres max ; Thickness: 3.10 centimetres; Width: 11 centimetres max ",,"One of the ""pieces of plates scored up"" mentioned by W.M.F. Petrie, Tanis ii, Nebesheh and Defenneh, p. 74 § 71.
Mentioned by E. Pusch, Das Senet-Brettspiel im alten Ägypten, MÄS 38, 1979, p. 370-371, § 78, N° 69c and by P.A. Piccione, The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its Significance for Egyptian Religion, Diss. Chicago, 1990, UMI Diss. Services, Ann, Arbor, 1990, p. 440, N° E040.
see also London, BM, EA 23802, 22323 & Boston, MFA, RES 87.148 (deaccessioned)",Petrie 1888 / Tanis. Part II. Nebesheh (Am) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes) (?); Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town,Not on display,,incomplete - fragment only,,,,,,Donated by: Egypt Exploration Fund,,,,1887,,Excavated May 1886.,Egypt and Sudan,EA23803,"1887,0101.846",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_17/d136201b_1f29_4397_bc20_a3da011a4813/preview_01219213_001.jpg,game-board,"No: As1956,04.19",,,,"Register 1956: Wooden game-board with fourteen cup-shaped depressions, seven on each long side, two central depresstions and a central rosette and demi-rosettes at ends.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: India,wood,,,,Height: 3 centimetres; Length: 38 centimetres; Weight: 1.08 kilograms; Depth: 19 centimetres,,"Register 1956:
India.
Board for game with beans.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Methodist Missionary Society,,,,1956,,,Asia,,"As1956,04.19",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_19/84627872_49ed_4dbc_9c47_a3b5013dc7ef/preview_00158454_001.jpg,game-board,"No: Af1978,22.249",,,,"Oware board; carved from wood; rectangle of wood with smaller rectangle on top for base; three lines incised on larger rectangle on either side of smaller rectangle; triangles incised along long sides of smaller rectangle; central round pillar and two slightly curved pillars coming up out of base, serrated teeth along outside of curved pillars; top consists of fourteen round cavities carved in tray on top with raised ridge down centre.",,,,,Asante,,,1850-1927,Made in: Ghana,Found/Acquired: Ghana,wood,,,carved,Height: 21 centimetres; Width: 49.50 centimetres; Depth: 15.50 centimetres,,Oware is a strategy game played with seeds.,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Mrs Celia Barclay,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Cecil Armitage,1978,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1978,22.249",Miscellaneous number: GA3 (Barclay number); Miscellaneous number: W801,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/1_4/896d3046_2388_453b_a5d5_a3d6005127dd/preview_01057477_001.jpg,game-board,No: EA21577,,,,Part of a wooden squared game-board with ivory divisions between the blue glazed composition squares; nefer sign on one square.,,,,,,,New Kingdom,,,Excavated/Findspot: Thebes (Upper Egypt - archaic),wood; ivory; glazed composition,,,glazed,Height: 7.50 centimetres; Weight: 358 grammes; Width: 27 centimetres; Depth: 11 centimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription script: hieroglyphic Inscription transliteration: nfr Inscription note: Ink. Single sign.,,,Not on display,,fair (incomplete),,,,,,Donated by: Jesse Haworth,,,,1887,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA21577,"1887,1203.4",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/25fef080_487b_415b_8351_a3b800ee0b5a/preview_01357510_001.jpg,game-board,"No: As1981,20.126.a",,,,Game board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Maldives,wood,,,,Height: 7 centimetres; Weight: 1.75 kilograms; Width: 80.60 centimetres; Depth: 13.40 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Dr Andrew Forbes; Purchased from: Ms Fawzia Ali,,,,1981,,,Asia,,"As1981,20.126.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/11_3/76c4c6a5_6a9d_43ce_90b6_a3c10036bcba/preview_00593211_001.jpg,game-board,No: EPH-ME.12,,,,Complete set of The British Museum version of the 'Royal Game of Ur'. In original box.,,,,,,,,20thC,,,paper,,,,"Length: 11.30 centimetres of board ; Thickness: 2.50 centimetres of board ; Width: 28.50 centimetres of board ",,,,Not on display,,,,,Associated with: Ur (city - archaic),,Royal Game of Ur,,,,,1992 (4th June),,,Middle East,,EPH-ME.12,,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_17/e97218c5_a832_42d9_900b_a3b5012750bc/preview_00151009_001.jpg,game-board,"No: 1999,0809,0.1",,,,"Snakes and Ladders (gyan chaupar) Board of ""large Pahari type"" (with 342 squares).  At the top are depictions of three deities: Śiva, Viṣṇu and Brahma.",,,,,,,Hindu,19thC(late),Painted in: Punjab Hills,Found/Acquired: Florence (city),paper,,,painted,Height: 57 centimetres; Width: 56.50 centimetres,"Inscription type: annotation Inscription language: English Inscription quoted: Inscribed on reverse: Karan Singh I
 Chamba State
 Date
 3.4.87 Inscription note: dated 3.4.87","The name written on the reverse of the game-board (ie Karan Singh I) is not that of the ruler of Chamba at that time (ie 1887). He was Raja Sham Singh (ruled 1873-1904).
Bibliography: Topsfield 1985, pls.9-11.",,Not on display,"Exhibited: 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",creased but good,hindu deity,Representation of: Brahmā/Bonten;  Representation of: Śiva (Shiva);  Representation of: Viṣṇu,Associated with: Chamba (?),,,Purchased from: Michele Valvassori; Purchased through: British Museum Friends (as British Museum Society),,,,1999,"Bought in Florence from Michele Valvassori of Ravenna, dealer in Indian art",,Asia,,"1999,0809,0.1",,,
,game-board,"No: As1987,16.189",,,,"Game Ludo board (used for Ludo, also Snakes and Ladders) made of paper, cotton.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Dhaka (city) (?),paper; cotton,,,,,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Ms Shireen Akbar,,,,1987,,,Asia,,"As1987,16.189",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/9_11/b1268a6e_e324_4afe_9ab9_a3bf00b6214d/preview_00505785_001.jpg,game-board; game-box,No: EA66669,,,,"Ivory game-board/box for senet. This rectangular games box is formed from a hollowed out block of wood, which has been fitted with a drawer (its back wall restored), with a wooden floor and decorative walls, to contain the gaming pieces. A bolt on the front of the drawer, held by two copper rings, can be passed through an identical ring at either side of the box's front in order to hold the drawer closed. 
The back of the box has also been restored, but its long walls and its top surface have been faced with a decorative material, the latter divided by ridges into thirty hollow squares arranged in three columns of ten. The underside of the box is of plain wood marked in ink with a system of twenty squares; twelve in a single central column, flanked at each side from squares nine to twelve by four squares. Only the two corner squares, and a long plain section at one side of the central column (level with squares one to eight), are still faced with this decorative material.",,,,,,,New Kingdom,1400BC-1200BC (circa),,Found/Acquired: Egypt,ivory; wood; copper,,,,Height: 4.50 centimetres; Width: 28 centimetres,,"A number of gaming boards and boxes with the same disposition of squares are known, but may have been used for senet, or ""twenty"" or ""twenty squares"".
Bibliography:
'Sotheby Sale Catalogue', 11 Nov 1924 1st 73;
'Sotheby Sale Catalogue', 16 Nov 1964 1st 13;
'The British Museum Report of the Trustees', (1966), pl.IX, p.35;
'Musees de Marseilles, Jouer dans l'antiquite', (1991), fig.122;
M.A. Corzo, 'Nefertari Luce d'Egitto' (Rome, 1994), p. 181 [44].
W. Decker & M. Herb, 'Bildatlas zum Sport im alten Ägypten : Corpus der bildlichen Quellen zu Leibesübungen, Spiel, Jagd, Tanz und verwandten Themen' Vol. I (Leiden, New York & Cologne, 1994);
M. Stead, 'Egyptian Life' (London, 1994), p.62, fig.83;
Getty Conservation, Nefertari, (1995), p.181.
I. Shaw and P. Nicholson, 'British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt' (London, 1995), p.107;
C. Andrews, 'Egyptian Treasures from the British Museum' (London, 1998), p.236, cat.no.73;
'Egyptian Treasures' [exhibition catalogue] (Shanghai, 1999), p.  226-7 [67];
H. Brugsch, 'Brettspiel', p.287-8, Br.50, pl.74.; For examples of a range of gaming boards from New Kingdom Egypt, see Egypt’s Golden Age (exhibition catalogue, Boston, 1982): 263-72",Andrews 2000 / Egyptian Treasures from the British Museum,On display (G61/dc4/sA),,fair,,,,,,Purchased from: Sotheby's,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Rev William Frankland Hood; Previous owner/ex-collection: Ernest Brummer,1965,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA66669,"1965,0213.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_16/b556e34a_488d_451c_9145_a3da0113ab11/preview_01216838_001.jpg,game-board,No: EPH-ME.90,,,,"Modern boxed set of ""Ancient Board Games, by I.L. Finkel: Senet, Mehen, Hounds and Jackals, The Royal Game of Ur""; cardboard with plastic pieces, in original plastic packaging.",Made by: The British Museum Company,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: England (?),,cardboard; plastic,,,,Length: 33 centimetres; Width: 30 centimetres,,There is another copy of this book: registration no. EPH.69.,,Not on display,,In original plastic packaging; unopened,,,,,Royal Game of Ur,Donated by: Dr Irving Finkel,,,,1998 (30 April),,,Middle East,,EPH-ME.90,,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/14_22/43e38037_eea5_4e53_9c83_a3c40179e8cf/preview_00912272_001.jpg,gaming-board; game-counter,No: MG.1599,,,,"Wooden board containing gaming counters from White's Club, octagonal 100gs and 50gs, round 25gs and 1gs; two holes in board are empty.",,,,,,,,,,,wood,,,,"Length: 297 millimetres board ",Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Gs100GR; Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: GR50gs; Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: GR25gs; Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Whites 1Ga,,,Not on display,,,,Associated with: White's Club,,,,Donated by: Montague Guest,,,,1907,,,Coins and Medals,,MG.1599,Miscellaneous number: G.1599,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/4_20/c69b0a33_47af_453a_8515_a3d90156d196/preview_01105857_001.jpg,go-board; go-piece; backgammon-board,No: OA+.1125,,,,"Set of game boards for go (with two jars of pieces), shogi (Japanese chess; with square container of pieces) and ban-sugoroku (Japanese backgammon; with dice roller and brocade bag of pieces). Decorated with crests and foliate motifs. Made of lacquered wood.",,,,,,,Edo Period,1800-1868,Made in: Japan,,wood; lacquer,,,lacquered,"Length: 17.40 centimetres largest board ",,,,Not on display,,,go; chess; backgammon,,,,,,,,,1975,,,Asia,,OA+.1125,,,
,go-board; go-piece,"No: 2014,3018.1",,,,"Set of Japanese go, comprising traditional, full-size board (goban; 19x19 grid) of solid wood on legs of turned-wood; 180 black slate stones and 180 white shell stones (go-ishi), stored in two covered bowls (goke) of turned wood. Cloth cover for board, yellow cloth wrapper, and protective outer wood cover.",,,,,,,Showa Era; Heisei Era,"20th century (early) (board and legs); 1973 (cloth cover); 1992 (stones, bowls, yellow cloth wrapper and wood cover)",Made in: Japan,,wood; slate; shell,,,,"Diameter: 13.60 centimetres each bowl ; Diameter: 7.60 centimetres each leg ; Diameter: 2.20 centimetres each stone ; Height: 25.90 centimetres board overall when assembled ; Height: 9.60 centimetres each bowl ; Height: 13.90 centimetres go board ; Length: 14 centimetres each leg ; Length: 44.70 centimetres go board ; Width: 40.50 centimetres go board ",,"T. Mark Hall was stationed at the British Embassy in Tokyo from 1969 to 1973.  During that time he developed an interest in the game of go, and in 1973, at the end of his stay, he received the go board as a gift from one of the embassy’s Japanese employees, who said it had belonged to his grandfather.  Mr. Hall had the top of the board planed and professionally refinished at that time.  He ordered and acquired the stones, bowls, yellow cloth cover and wood cover during a trip to Japan circa 1992.  Over the years as he travelled to new postings, the set travelled with him.  In 2012, the board was displayed at the Imperial War Museum.
This set centres on a traditional, professional level (19x19 grid) Japanese ‘floor board’:  a thick, solid wood board with a square recessed area (heso) on its underside to deter warping and impart a pleasant resonance to the ‘click’ sound when stones are firmly set in place (a part of go etiquette).  It is the most expensive type of board produced.  Signs of wear around the sides of the board reflect use over time and travels with the donor.  Also of high quality are the slate and shell stones, the latter perhaps being of tsuki (moon) grade (the middle grade of shell stones).",,Not on display,,,go,,,,,Donated by: T. Mark Hall,,,,2014,,,Asia,,"2014,3018.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/10_23/2814c2f2_0daa_4ba4_adc7_a3df0187a157/preview_01563718_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1922,0413.132",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,Made in: Mozambique (?;coast),Found/Acquired: Zomba,wood,,,,Height: 19.30 centimetres; Width: 117 centimetres; Depth: 44.80 centimetres,,"From acquisition ""mancala"".",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Dr Hugh Stannus Stannus,,,,1922,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1922,0413.132",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/a1d6fc40_a026_4b2f_844e_a3ba01453a6f/preview_00256275_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.2",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; made of marble; rectangular piece of marble carved with six round cavities along each long side and one on each end, two rectangular cavities at centre; etched with curvilinear designs painted gold; four lathed wooden legs glued to underside.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,marble; wood,,,carved; etched; painted,Height: 5 centimetres; Weight: 2690 grammes; Width: 36.50 centimetres; Depth: 18.50 centimetres,,"The weight of this board would suggest it was not used as a portable board, but reserved for special occasions. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/5cb4eb56_7324_4758_bf64_a3ba01454dcb/preview_00256287_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.6",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; eye and gill carved on outside; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 19.60 centimetres open ; Height: 9.60 centimetres; Weight: 935 grammes; Width: 44.20 centimetres; Depth: 3.30 centimetres; Depth: 6.30 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.6",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/8278f958_35be_4e19_b8d5_a3ba013c2b46/preview_00253711_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,30.5",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; outside carved with eyes, mouth and scales; head and fins painted green, body painted red; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities and painted red; metal hook nailed onto one piece, and metal eye screwed into opposite piece for holding board closed.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal,,,carved; painted,Height: 6 centimetres closed ; Height: 3.80 centimetres open ; Weight: 1338 grammes; Width: 49.50 centimetres; Depth: 11.50 centimetres; Depth: 24.30 centimetres,,"The game is played using tamarind stones, small pebbles or cowrie shells. Boards in the shape of fish occur frequently in southern India and Sri Lanka. The coastal location and the local reliance on fishing as a principal means of livelihood may partly explain this. Concerns with fertility may also be reflected in the use of fish-shaped boards. Games may be played on special occasions or at propitious times of the year in the hope of ensuring a good crop of fish and thus the well-being and prosperity of the local people. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1996,30.5",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_20/dacba1e6_a2cb_44cd_a621_a3ba014dfad2/preview_00258701_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,09.2",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; ovoid piece of wood; top carved with border of lines, fourteen round cavities around edge, two large D-shaped cavities at centre.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood,,,carved,Height: 3.60 centimetres; Weight: 1526 grammes; Width: 33 centimetres; Depth: 23.50 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,09.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_20/69c83dbe_6151_43de_a3fb_a3ba014dfe71/preview_00258704_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,09.4",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, rectangular with rounded ends, joined together with metal hinges; outside carved with ridges; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities and S-shaped lines around edge.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 3.20 centimetres open ; Height: 5.50 centimetres; Weight: 843 grammes; Width: 41 centimetres; Depth: 16.70 centimetres open ; Depth: 8.50 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,09.4",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/3c0cd17d_32bb_451e_ab26_a3b800e88f5e/preview_01356138_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.16",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 5.70 centimetres; Weight: 1.161 kilograms; Width: 34.60 centimetres; Depth: 18.60 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1987, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 5), 'Introduction to the Collections'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.16",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/4a078497_a59c_46b5_ae38_a3b60102faf2/preview_00019736_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1893,0715.19",,,,"Mancala-board (""gabatta""); handmade, from cow-dung.",,,,,,,,19thC,,Found/Acquired: Ethiopia,cow dung,,,handmade,Height: 3.50 centimetres; Width: 26.30 centimetres; Depth: 3.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the World'",,,,,,,Donated by: James Theodore Bent,,,,1893,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1893,0715.19","Miscellaneous number: Af1973,Q.632 (previously registered as)",,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/5e6a0ab9_58f5_4d33_b383_a3b800e7a470/preview_01355816_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.14",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 2.80 centimetres; Weight: 1367 grammes; Width: 39.10 centimetres; Depth: 21.60 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.14",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_23/6e666545_7cf9_4858_8aa7_a3dc0181c792/preview_01336166_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1954,23.194",,,,"Carved wood mancala board, a carved head at one end. It shows much wear, two of the cups have holes mended with metal sheet.",,,,,Yoruba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Nigeria,wood; metal,,,,Height: 6 centimetres; Width: 54.70 centimetres; Depth: 18.50 centimetres,,"Register 1954
Carved wood mancala board, a carved head at one end. It shows much wear, two of the cups have holes mended with metal sheet.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,23.194",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 160320 (Wellcome Collection Number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/cb66b33a_3c63_4eee_85a2_a3ba013c2dda/preview_00253713_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,30.6",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, rectangular with rounded ends, joined together with metal hinges; outside carved with ridges; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities; metal hook nailed onto one piece, with metal nail on opposite piece for holding board closed.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kerala (State),,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 7 centimetres; Weight: 766 grammes; Width: 35 centimetres; Depth: 6.50 centimetres,,"The game is played using tamarind stones, small pebbles or cowrie shells. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1996,30.6",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/10_11/6e107a7f_3b0f_4404_9e04_a3c000bdd571/preview_00549409_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1921,0311.2",,,,Mancala-board; carved of wood; boat-shaped board with cylindrical pedestal; four round holes carved on either side of pedestal; inside of pedestal hollowed out and partially covered with piece of metal nailed to underside.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 15 centimetres; Width: 56 centimetres; Depth: 13 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Dr May Thorne,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Capt F N Thorne,1921,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1921,0311.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/a0323ed9_e5c9_46b5_821c_a3ba013d2339/preview_00254129_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1928,0207.1",,,,Mancala board; carved from wood.,,,,,Yoruba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Nigeria,wood,,,carved,Height: 11 centimetres; Width: 60 centimetres; Depth: 23 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the World'
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,Purchased from: G Bone,,,,1928,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1928,0207.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/b3673700_685e_4f33_9bf5_a3b801313169/preview_00322484_001.jpg,mancala-board; mancala-piece,"No: Af1991,07.5.a-b",,,,"Long, thin, wood mancala board (a) with double row of raised, spherical cups. Light brown with surface abrasions. One end cup pierced and plugged with dark wood. Peg-like protrusion at opposite end. Pierced on long side with leather carrying hoop. Together with bag of sixty-nine pebbles (b) used as mancala-pieces.",,,,,Samburu,,,20thC,,Found/Acquired: Kenya,wood; leather; stone,,,carved,"Height: 5 centimetres a ; Height: 1.50 centimetres b - largest pebble ; Height: 0.90 centimetres b - smallest pebble ; Width: 71 centimetres a ; Width: 1.90 centimetres b - largest pebble ; Width: 1.30 centimetres b - smallest pebble ; Depth: 21 centimetres a ; Depth: 1.90 centimetres b - largest pebble ; Depth: 1 centimetres b - smallest pebble ",,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",Good. Crack parallel with grain of wood.,,,,,,Purchased from: Stephen Oliver Taylor,,,,1991,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1991,07.5.a-b",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/9_16/b8283303_bd5b_454f_aa56_a3bf010e1568/preview_00528001_001.jpg,mancala-board,No: Af.2186,,,,"Mancala-board; carved of wood; board carved with single central round support, twelve round cavities on top, larger irregular cavity on either end; band of notches carved around each cavity.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone (?),wood,,,carved,Height: 12.50 centimetres; Length: 65 centimetres; Width: 15 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'
2012 Nov-2013 March, Bonn, KAH, Treasures of the World's Cultures",,,,,,,Donated by: Henry Christy,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Royal United Service Institute (United Service Museum) (?),1860-1869,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,Af.2186,CDMS number: Af186?C1.2186 (old CDMS no.),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/0a285de6_3740_413e_ad3f_a3b800e88ac8/preview_01356135_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.12",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 6.20 centimetres; Weight: 1.672 kilograms; Width: 38.90 centimetres; Depth: 17.80 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.12",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/11_9/6f5f2e2c_f790_4647_a37b_a3e000992fca/preview_01570720_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1972,14.245",,,,"Game board (for cisolwa, mancala) made of wood.",,,,,Lala,,,,,Found/Acquired: Zambia,wood,,,,Height: 10.50 centimetres; Width: 112.50 centimetres; Depth: 44.50 centimetres,,"Register addition ""Lala"".",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Fr Jean Jacques Corbeil,,,,1972,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1972,14.245",,,
,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.19",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 8.20 centimetres; Weight: 1.770 kilograms; Width: 36.50 centimetres; Depth: 12.40 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited: 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.19",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_17/364a2338_0a3d_4134_b2da_a3da011a5b78/preview_01219225_001.jpg,mancala-board; mancala-piece,"No: As1972,Q.2063",,,,"Mancala board (in form of a fish; in two hinged halves) made of red-painted wood, with metal hook and eye for fastening; containing cowrie shell counters.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: India (?),wood; cowrie shell; metal,,,painted,Height: 13 centimetres; Length: 46 centimetres; Weight: 700 grammes; Depth: 16 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Transferred from: India Museum,,,,,,,Asia,,"As1972,Q.2063",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Af1911,1214.77",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,Arab; Bagirmi,,,,,Found/Acquired: Ndjamena,wood,,,,Height: 40 centimetres; Width: 34.50 centimetres; Depth: 10.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Miss Olive Macleod,,,,1911,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1911,1214.77",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_9/3c54ffe1_ff09_48b9_9fa5_a3b700a176aa/preview_00044611_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1973,29.3.a",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Uganda,wood,,,,"Height: 4.80 centimetres a ; Height: 18 centimetres b (bag) ; Height: 1.30 centimetres c - bk (counter - average) ; Width: 24.60 centimetres a ; Width: 11.50 centimetres b (bag) ; Width: 1.30 centimetres c - bk (counter - average) ; Depth: 47.50 centimetres a ; Depth: 3.30 centimetres b (bag) ; Depth: 1.30 centimetres c - bk (counter - average) ",,"Register addition ""Uganda"".",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,Purchased from: Christie's,,,,1973,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1973,29.3.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/b4153484_77e4_410d_b52a_a3b800e7abd2/preview_01355821_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.21",,,,Mancala board (fish-shaped) made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 6.10 centimetres; Weight: 388 grammes; Width: 36.90 centimetres; Depth: 7.70 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the World'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.21",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Af1952,07.212.a",,,,"Register 1952:
Wooden carved mancala board, ""hide shaped"".",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Uganda,wood,,,carved,"Height: 5 centimetres a ; Height: 22.50 centimetres b bag containing c-bn ; Width: 51 centimetres a ; Width: 18 centimetres b bag containing c-bn ; Depth: 31.50 centimetres a ; Depth: 3.50 centimetres b bag containing c-bn ",,"Accompanies bag and nuts Af1952,07.212b-bd.
Register 1952:
Another [like Af1952,07.211], ""hide shaped"" & without a pedestal base.
211&212. Mancala boards, the game is called MWESO in UGANDA. (HJR Murray, Board Games p.213-223, H.J.Braunholtz, Man [""Man"" underlined] 1931, 132, 143)
83,116,169-225: UGANDA,  E.AFRICA
1-Large series, chiefly from W.Africa & Uganda, dating from 1880 onwards.
Register 1952 later addition [after ""...132,143)]:
With bag of 64 nuts.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Church Missionary Society,,,,1952,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1952,07.212.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/11_14/f07befd5_13a4_4f66_a3b2_a3c100ea69a0/preview_00657325_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1955,02.1",,,,Mancala board; carved of wood; rectangular board carved with twelve round cavities in two roles; round cavity at either end; storage cavity carved in base at one end for counters; base is carved with open-work diamond shapes.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone (?),wood,,,carved,Height: 16.50 centimetres; Width: 18 centimetres; Depth: 60.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Hermann Justus Braunholtz,,,,1955,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1955,02.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/3_7/e2fd1ed9_1bae_4039_b61a_a3b900837292/preview_00352320_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1904,0622.2.a",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,Made in: Uganda,"Found/Acquired: Ubangi, River;  Found/Acquired: Uganda",wood,,,,"Height: 4.30 centimetres a ; Width: 51.30 centimetres a ; Depth: 31 centimetres a ",,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Rowland James Ward,,,,1904,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1904,0622.2.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/794eb259_a109_455d_aa59_a3b800e7a76b/preview_01355818_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.18",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 6.50 centimetres; Weight: 1.326 kilograms; Width: 30 centimetres; Depth: 15.40 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.18",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/10_11/cebb7f18_63de_4f35_985a_a3c000be5577/preview_00549624_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1956,10.4",,,,"Mancala board; carved from wood; boat-shaped board on square pedestal; twelve round cavities carved on top, with triangular cavity and knob carved at each end; concentric diamonds carved between round cavities.",,,,,Mende,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood,,,carved,Height: 15 centimetres; Width: 63.60 centimetres; Depth: 16 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Knob broken off one end.,,,,,,Purchased from: Methodist Missionary Society,,,,1956,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1956,10.4",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/493c73c5_e980_4d9a_ba65_a3ba013c30ab/preview_00253715_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,30.7",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, rectangular with rounded ends, joined together with metal hinge at centre; outside carved with ridges; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities and a triangular cavity on either side of hinge; there are cavities near either end that indicate there were two other hinges at some point.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kerala (State),,wood; metal,,,carved,"Height: 6.50 centimetres closed ; Height: 3.50 centimetres open ; Weight: 629 grammes open ; Width: 38.50 centimetres closed ; Width: 38.50 centimetres open ; Depth: 7.50 centimetres closed ; Depth: 15 centimetres open ",,"The game is played using tamarind stones, small pebbles or cowrie shells. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1996,30.7",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_20/7ff19625_a76f_4491_b38a_a3ba014de90d/preview_00258689_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,23.1",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; rectangular piece of wood, wider at top than bottom, carved on sides with curvilinear design; top carved with fourteen round cavities around two rectangular cavities at centre; on bottom sticker reading ""AS5 £70"" and one partially destroyed reading ""HERITAGE...COCHIN 682 002, Phone"".",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: India,,wood,,,carved,Height: 8.70 centimetres; Weight: 2079 grammes; Width: 30.60 centimetres; Depth: 16.20 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,,1997,,,Asia,,"As1997,23.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/10_11/325ee18c_f19b_4fbd_a173_a3c000be5c9d/preview_00549628_001.jpg,mancala-board; game-counter,"No: Af1956,10.5",,,,"Mancala-board; carved of wood; boat-shaped mancala board with scrolls carved on either side of base and on either end of board; twelve round cavities carved in top, with triangular cavity on either end; inside of base hollowed out to contain 49 white bean counters.",,,,,Mende,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood; bean,,,carved,"Height: 16 centimetres Mancala- board ; Weight: 92 grammes game-counter ; Width: 61 centimetres Mancala- board ; Depth: 13.50 centimetres Mancala- board ",,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",Scrollwork is missing from one end of board.,,,,,,Purchased from: Methodist Missionary Society,,,,1956,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1956,10.5",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/ac7b9934_4a08_4bde_b866_a3b800e7a607/preview_01355817_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.17",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 2.60 centimetres; Weight: 904 grammes; Width: 28.20 centimetres; Depth: 17 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.17",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Af1954,+23.4011",,,,Two-row game-board (mancala-board) carved from a solid piece of wood. The  board has 20 playing holes with a large storage hole at either end.,,,,,,,,20thC (early),Made in: Africa (East ?),,wood,,,carved,Height: 11 centimetres; Width: 117 centimetres; Depth: 15 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Part of one end-storage hole broken and one foot missing.,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.4011",Previous owner/ex-collection number: NN (Wellcome Collection number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/9_16/5eb7de26_5f89_4676_8956_a3bf010dccde/preview_00527763_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1936,1102.1",,,,"Mancala-board; carved of wood;  long boat-shaped board with two round posts on bottom for support; twelve round cavities carved in top of board, with large triangular cavity on either end.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone (?);  Found/Acquired: Africa (West),wood,,,carved,Height: 10 centimetres; Width: 62.50 centimetres; Depth: 13 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Purchased from: F G Rayner,,,,1936,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1936,1102.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_11/394b32c0_6738_44a6_a264_a3b700bd48fd/preview_00054202_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1963,17.1.a",,,,"Mancala board (in form of crocodile) made of wood, tin.",,,,,Ekoi,,,,,Found/Acquired: Port Harcourt (?),wood; tin,,,carved,"Height: 19 centimetres a ; Height: 1.40 centimetres b; largest ; Height: 1.30 centimetres b; smallest ; Width: 85.10 centimetres a ; Width: 1.80 centimetres b; largest ; Width: 1.50 centimetres b; smallest ; Depth: 17.80 centimetres a ; Depth: 2 centimetres b; largest ; Depth: 1.80 centimetres b; smallest ",,"Register addition ""Nigeria"" From acquisition ""Lagos"" From acquisition ""Port Harcourt"".
Register addition ""Ekoi"".",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,crocodile,,,,,Donated by: Mrs E M Gibb,,,,1963,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1963,17.1.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_20/458a8cf5_dcf2_4c5c_9819_a3ba014dfc2c/preview_00258702_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,09.3",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; outside carved with flowers and curvilinear designs; inside of each piece carved with eight round cavities and floral and curvilinear designs.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 2.50 centimetres open ; Height: 5.50 centimetres; Weight: 832 grammes; Width: 40 centimetres; Depth: 24.50 centimetres open ; Depth: 13 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,09.3",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_23/5d9cd319_b4ed_484d_8023_a3dc0181b886/preview_01336159_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1954,23.192",,,,"Carved wood mancala board, a human head projects from one end of the board which is supported on carved human and animal figures.",,,,,Yoruba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Abeokuta,wood,,,,Height: 14.50 centimetres; Width: 60.70 centimetres; Depth: 24.70 centimetres,,"Register 1954
Carved wood mancala board, a human head projects from one end of the board which is supported on carved human and animal figures.
Mancala board. In the style of Abeokuta.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,23.192",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 28915 (Wellcome Collection Number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/16e48c8a_e943_4475_99be_a3ba01453d24/preview_00256277_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.4",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; eye and scales carved on outside; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities; metal hook screwed to one piece to hold board closed (nail on opposite piece missing).",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 4.50 centimetres; Height: 9 centimetres; Weight: 1215 grammes; Width: 51.50 centimetres; Depth: 15.30 centimetres; Depth: 7.50 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.4",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/8f3c6eb0_9c92_4be2_aebd_a3ba01443938/00256066_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,33.3",,,,"Mancala board; carved of wood; two rectangular pieces of wood joined together with two metal hinges, inside of each piece carved with seven large round cavities; metal hook attached to side of one piece of wood, metal nail in opposite piece of wood to hold board closed.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Tartus;  Retailed in: Aleppo,,wood; metal,,,carved,Length: 5 centimetres; Weight: 460 grammes; Width: 51.50 centimetres; Depth: 7.50 centimetres,,"See Gupta, Hem Ch. Das. ""Notes on a Type of Sedentary Game prevalent in many parts of India."" In: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. New Series. 1923: XIX, 71-74.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Middle East,,"As1996,33.3",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_16/047bb611_f662_420c_bd0e_a3da011004b1/preview_01215747_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: 2008,6027.1",,,,"Wooden game-board for the game of mancala; rectangular with one rounded end, perforated, face carved with two by seven arrangement of circular lathe-turned holes, each with a central depression at the centre from the action of the lathe; decorated with drilled dotted circles between the holes; covered with brown varnish; used and scratched from extensive use and wear.",,,,,,,,20thC,Made in: Damascus (?),Found/Acquired: Palmyra,wood,,,carved; perforated; varnished,"Diameter: 5.70 centimetres holes for playing ; Length: 58.20 centimetres; Weight: 1.52 kilograms; Thickness: 3.40 centimetres; Width: 14.50 centimetres; Depth: 2.30 holes for playing ",,"Identical examples seen by the collector being made in Syria, e.g. by one Abdur-Rahman Qasum (b. 1964) on ""Straight Street"", Damascus, 17 June 1996; created for local use rather than for the tourist market. Moreover, an early 20thC postcard seen by one staff member (Simpson) shows men playing this game in Syria.",,On display (G42/dc12),,used and scratched from extensive use and wear,,,,,,Donated by: Dr St John Simpson,,,,2008,"Acquired by the donor at Palmyra in Syria, June 1996.",,Middle East,,"2008,6027.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2019_11/13_8/3842796e_0bf8_4250_857e_ab04009128aa/preview_EAF23209_3Q.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1957,08.1",,,,"Mancala board, game-board; carved from wood. 2 x 6 square playing holes and two circular end holes. Decorated with guilloche patterns on one side and stylized Portugese heads on other.",,,,,Edo,,,16thC-19thC (circa),Made in: Benin City,Found/Acquired: Benin City,wood,,,carved,Height: 5.80 centimetres; Width: 65.20 centimetres; Depth: 13.20 centimetres,,"Register 1957:
""Wooden carved mancala board, with guilloches on one side & ? stylised Portuguese heads onm the other. Collected at BENIN, S. NIGERIA in 1897.""",,Not on display,,Good.,european,,,,,Donated by: Rear-Adm Brian Egerton,,,,1957,,"Looted during British expedition to Benin City, 1897.","Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1957,08.1",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 27 (Egerton list 1957),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/690b8522_6537_4e47_9de2_a3ba013c14f4/preview_00253701_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,30.1",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; eye, mouth and gill of fish carved; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities and a fish-shaped cavity; Arabic characters carved on side of one fish.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 5 centimetres closed ; Height: 2.60 centimetres open ; Weight: 1207 grammes; Width: 47 centimetres; Depth: 12.50 centimetres; Depth: 24.70 centimetres,,"The game is played using tamarind stones, small pebbles or cowrie shells. Boards in the shape of fish occur frequently in southern India and Sri Lanka. The coastal location and the local reliance on fishing as a principal means of livelihood may partly explain this. Concerns with fertility may also be reflected in the use of fish-shaped boards. Games may be played on special occasions or at propitious times of the year in the hope of ensuring a good crop of fish and thus the well-being and prosperity of the local people. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1996,30.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/67d7f235_59a9_417f_bc92_a3b6010165de/preview_00019392_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1939,07.31",,,,Wooden mancala-board in form of a crocodile with 12 playing holes along the back; painted bright red and yellow and black.,,,,,Yoruba; Hausa,,,,Made in: Nigeria,Found/Acquired: Ijebu Ode,wood,,,carved; painted,Height: 19.20 centimetres; Width: 78.50 centimetres; Depth: 20.20 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the World'
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,crocodile,,,,,Donated by: H M Brice Smith,,,,1939,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1939,07.31",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/c2c3d274_294d_4263_a838_a3ba01452e18/preview_00256268_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.10",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; eye, mouth, gill and scales carved on outside of each piece; inside carved with seven round cavities and one hourglass-shaped cavity near tail; traces of paint remain on outside.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal,,,carved; painted,Height: 9.70 centimetres closed ; Height: 19 centimetres open ; Weight: 1188 grammes; Width: 43.70 centimetres; Depth: 3.20 centimetres; Depth: 5.90 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.10",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/cd89e5c2_8bc9_4bdd_ab0d_a3ba01455157/preview_00256290_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.9",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinge; strips of brass nailed on for eyes, around gills and fins and around outside of tail; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities and one ovoid cavity.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal; brass,,,carved,Height: 12.80 centimetres closed ; Height: 24.70 centimetres; Weight: 898 grammes; Width: 46.50 centimetres; Depth: 3.20 centimetres; Depth: 6 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.9",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/11_9/46347bde_5530_4833_bfe2_a3e000993158/preview_01570721_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1972,14.246",,,,"Game board (for cisolwa, mancala) made of iron (galvanised).",,,,,Lala,,,,,Found/Acquired: Zambia,iron,,,,Height: 2.70 centimetres; Width: 71.60 centimetres; Depth: 29.10 centimetres,,"Register addition ""Lala"".",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Fr Jean Jacques Corbeil,,,,1972,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1972,14.246",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/1_0/5fb1f871_9e6d_4fa8_ae7c_a3d600102aaa/preview_01038391_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1953,25.10",,,,"Mancala ('warri') game board amde of wood. Two-row board with six playing holes on each side, two large storage holes at either end. Central columnar storage compartment for the counters. The board is supported upon four fixed wheels and is painted a blue-green colour. 36 cowrie shells counters, two black beans and one bone.",,,,,,,,20thC,Made in: Sierra Leone,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood; cowrie shell; bean; bone,,,carved; painted,Height: 25 centimetres; Weight: 68 grammes game pieces ; Width: 22.50 centimetres; Depth: 63 centimetres,,"Mancala is an ancient game still played across Africa, Asia, the West Indies, parts of South America and the Middle East. The game's popularity may partly stem from the fact that it is easy to play anywhere. The pieces are seeds, shells or whatever comes to hand, and the boards can be dug into the sand or dirt, or even carved into rock. Wood is a popular material, partly because of the satisfying noise that 'sowing' the pieces into the holes makes. Unlike chess, mancala is not a quiet game, and the noise of play is often accompanied by the shouts of the players.
Two players or teams take it in turns to drop their pieces into the holes, moving them around the board in a set direction; the name 'mancala' comes from an Arabic verb meaning 'to move'. The aim is to capture as many of their opponent's pieces as possible.
Two-row mancala is the most popular version of the game and the easiest to play, but there are also three- and four-row boards. The name mancala is a generic term - the game actually goes by numerous different local names, and has a wide variety of playing rules. The two best-known versions are ayo, played in Nigeria, and wari, which is played across West Africa and the Caribbean. 
Boards from Sierra Leone are noted for their decorative openwork bases. These are clearly more time-consuming to make and more expensive to buy and may be regarded as prestigious objects owned by people of high social status.; Register 1953:
Wooden carved mancala board with 12 holes and two end holes, painted bluish green,  with storage column in centre holding cowrie shell counters, and also supported by four wheels.
SIERRA LEONE.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Miss G Smyly,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir P Crampton Smyly,1953,"Collection made by the donor’s father, Sir P.Crampton Smyly, formerly Chief  Justice of Sierra Leone  (1909-1911) and of the Gold Coast Colony (1911-1929).",,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1953,25.10",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/9_19/0b7bac18_973b_4779_b380_a3de0147346f/preview_01467527_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,07.1",,,,"Mancala (Dakon) board; carved of wood; rectangular piece of wood with four legs attached on bottom, each small end carved to resemble dragon? head, with body carved down sides; with eight circular cavities carved on backs of dragons with rectangular ridge around cavities; heads painted black with green lips and red tongues; cavities alternate red and green with black border.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Java,,wood,,,carved; painted,Height: 12.30 centimetres; Weight: 1.20 kilograms; Width: 45.30 centimetres; Depth: 9.60 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,dragon (?),,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,07.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_17/267785f9_e445_4385_b781_a3da011aa7cb/preview_01219273_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1897,0318.5",,,,"Half of carved ivory mancala-board, oblong shape, with line of seven circular depressions.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: India,ivory,,,carved,Height: 3 centimetres; Length: 35 centimetres; Weight: 900 grammes; Depth: 7 centimetres,,"British and Medieval Dept. Register,v. ,p.204: acquired by Franks at Sotheby's Sale, March 1st [1897 ?]; no provenance given. Attached label ""AWF. India"".
Ethno.Dept. Temporary Register,1861-1921,p.81: no specific details.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks,,,,1897,,,Asia,,"As1897,0318.5",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/11_10/5911e6d0_ec89_4266_8095_a3e000a73294/preview_01574718_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1972,14.244",,,,"Game board (for cisolwa, mancala) made of wood.",,,,,Bemba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Kayambi,wood,,,,Height: 1 centimetres seed average ; Height: 12 centimetres; Width: 1 centimetres seed average ; Width: 120 centimetres; Depth: 1 centimetres seed average ; Depth: 16.50 centimetres,,"Register addition ""Kayambi"".
Register addition ""Bemba"".
On top of Rack 8.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1983-1986, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 9), 'Bemba'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Fr Jean Jacques Corbeil,,,,1972,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1972,14.244",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/8a638e57_5474_48e4_8813_a3ba01441f6c/preview_00256059_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,33.1",,,,"Mancala board; carved of apricot wood; two rectangular pieces of wood with rounded ends joined together with three metal hinges, diamond-shaped notch at one end; inside of each piece carved with seven large round cavities surrounded by smaller round cavities with mounds at centre; metal clasp attached to side to hold board closed.",Made by: Abdul Rahman Qasum,,,,,,,17 June 1996,,Found/Acquired: Damascus,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 5.50 centimetres; Weight: 1.16 grammes; Width: 61.50 centimetres; Depth: 8 centimetres,,"See Gupta, Hem Ch. Das. ""Notes on a Type of Sedentary Game prevalent in many parts of India."" In: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. New Series. 1923: XIX, 71-74.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Middle East,,"As1996,33.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/9_19/ec5070d6_c53d_4ba7_9dc6_a3de014732d8/preview_01467526_001.jpg,mancala-board; game-piece,"No: As1997,06.1.a-b",,,,"Mancala board (with game pieces); a) board carved of wood: rectangular piece of wood with bevelled edges; painted red and decorated with white and orange flowers and curvilinear designs; top of piece carved with round cavity at either end, with ten ovoid cavities between, painted with small white and orange flowers and large red flowers with green leaves; white sticker reading ""MADE IN INDONESIA"" in black stuck on bottom; b) game pieces made of pottery: fifty round pieces of pottery with perforated designs.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Java,,wood; pottery,,,carved; painted,"Diameter: 0.80 centimetres game pieces b (each piece) ; Height: 2.90 centimetres mancala board a ; Weight: 0.10 grammes game piece b (each piece) ; Weight: 522 grammes mancala board a ; Width: 49 centimetres mancala board a ; Depth: 11.30 centimetres mancala board a ",,"The design painted on the board resembles Javanese batik textiles. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,flower,,,,,Donated by: Paul Bromberg,,,,1997,,,Asia,,"As1997,06.1.a-b",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/11_14/63e3c089_f8d6_4b06_945e_a3c100ea5a49/preview_00657314_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1953,25.9",,,,"Mancala ('warri') board made of wood. Boat-shaped. Two rows of six playing holes; triangular storage hole at one end, rectangular storgae hole at other. Stand of board has space for storing the counters.",,,,,,,,20thC,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood; cotton,,,carved,Height: 16 centimetres; Width: 15 centimetres; Depth: 62 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Miss G Smyly,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir P Crampton Smyly,1953,"Collection made by the donor’s father, Sir P.Crampton Smyly, formerly Chief  Justice of Sierra Leone  (1909-1911) and of the Gold Coast Colony (1911-1929).",,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1953,25.9",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_20/1c0126f8_6c6f_429a_918a_a3ba014df4c0/preview_00258697_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,44.1",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; rectangular piece of wood with two legs carved on underside near short sides; top carved with six small round cavities and one large round cavity at either end, curvilinear border carved around outside edge; stained red.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Rajasthan,,wood,,,carved; stained,Height: 10 centimetres; Weight: 2.86 kilograms; Width: 63.50 centimetres; Depth: 15.50 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Michael Mark,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for this and 1997 Af 23.1.,,Asia,,"As1997,44.1",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Af1952,07.211",,,,"Register 1952:
Wooden carved mancala board with thirty-two holes in four rows on a pedestal base.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Uganda,wood,,,carved,Height: 23.20 centimetres; Width: 56.50 centimetres; Depth: 34.30 centimetres,,"Register 1952:
Wooden carved mancala board with 32 holes in 4 rows on a pedestal base.
211&212. Mancala boards, the game is called MWESO in UGANDA. (HJR Murray, Board Games p.213-223, H.J.Braunholtz, Man [""Man"" underlined] 1931, 132, 143)
83,116,169-225: UGANDA,  E.AFRICA
1-Large series, chiefly from W.Africa & Uganda, dating from 1880 onwards.
Register 1952 later addition [after ""...132,143)]:
With bag of 64 nuts.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Church Missionary Society,,,,1952,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1952,07.211",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/11_14/1155f64d_0948_491c_8427_a3c100eba64a/preview_00657945_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1968,14.1",,,,"Mancala board; carved of wood; board in the form of boat on wheels; twelve round cavities carved on top, triangular cavity carved on either end; nine smaller holes carved between larger rows of holes, plugged with wooden stoppers; lathe-turned handle on underside of one end of board; rectangular base with four wheels; geometric pattern carved along side of board.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone (?),wood,,,carved; lathe-turned,Height: 18 centimetres; Width: 16.50 centimetres; Depth: 64 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,Four wooden stoppers missing from top of board; two wheels missing.,,,,,,Donated by: Miss B Goshawk,,,,1968,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1968,14.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_20/61dd7036_6d97_4c30_822b_a3ba014df5f0/preview_00258698_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,07.3",,,,"Mancala (Dakon) board; carved of wood; roughly rectangular piece of wood carved with fourteen small round cavities and one large round cavity either end; human figure with monkey? face seated cross-legged at each end, holding sides of board; tray painted red on sides, green inside cavities; figure blue with gold markings, white face, green pants with white stripes and black and yellow dots.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Yogyakarta (district),,wood,,,carved; painted,Height: 22.50 centimetres; Weight: 2.42 kilograms; Width: 72.50 centimetres; Depth: 15 centimetres,,"The names given to the holes, ""rice-fields"", and to the end holes, ""storage sheds"", reflect the agricultural occupations of many of the people of Java. This symbolism continues in the form of terminology and strategy used during play. Empty holes are ""fallow land"" which a skillful player will not allow to remain unoccupied for long. These fields will be sown with seeds to render them fertile again. An opponent may also sow seeds into these fallow fields, thus helping to tend his neighbour's land. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,mammal (?),,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,07.3",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/cbceba9d_3228_494e_92f4_a3ba013f70b4/preview_00254790_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1954,23.193",,,,"Carved wood mancala board supported by four equestrian figures which are carved separately and connected to the mancala board by metal rods and nailed to a flat stand, the fastenings have come apart. The kneeling figure of a woman holding a child remains nailed to the stand.",,,,,Yoruba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Nigeria,wood; metal,,,,Height: 53 centimetres; Width: 64 centimetres; Depth: 24 centimetres,,"Carved wood mancala board supported by four equestrian figures which are carved separately and connected to the mancala board by metal rods and nailed to a flat stand, the fastenings have come apart. The kneeling figure of a woman holding a child remains nailed to the stand.; Bought from Stevens, 8 or 9 /12/1928, lot 286 for £6.10.0.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",Borken.,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine; Purchased through: Stevens' Auction Rooms Ltd,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,23.193",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 50914 (Wellcome Collection number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/10_11/1673abd1_bfca_4031_931b_a3c000bddfdc/preview_00549415_001.jpg,mancala-board; stopper; game-piece,"No: Af1923,0206.10.a-am",,,,Mancala-board (a); carved of wood; boat-shaped with square-shaped hollow pedestal support. Arms extend from underneath board to sides of pedestal. Two-row board with six playing  holes on each side; larger storage hole at either end. Storage container stopper (b) made of wood. Stopper and pedestal carved with geometric designs. Thirty-seven playing pieces (c-bm) made of beans.,,,,,,,,1900-1923 (circa),Made in: Sierra Leone (?),Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone (?);  Found/Acquired: Liberia (?),wood; bean,,,carved,"Height: 17 centimetres a+b ; Height: 8.50 centimetres b ; Height: 0.90 centimetres max: c-am ; Height: 0.90 centimetres min: c-am ; Width: 68 centimetres a ; Width: 3 centimetres b ; Width: 1.90 centimetres max: c-am ; Width: 1.40 centimetres min: c-am ; Depth: 14.50 centimetres a ; Depth: 3 centimetres b ; Depth: 2.30 centimetres max: c-am ; Depth: 1.50 centimetres min: c-am ",,"Bill Hart [personal communication, 19 May 2010] identified this as possibly being from Sierra Leone.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the world'
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Miss Hirst,,,,1923,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1923,0206.10.a-am",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_23/70b0cff2_1184_43d8_a3eb_a3dc0181b043/preview_01336156_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1951,05.1",,,,"Wooden carved mancala-board; carved with twelve holes in two rows, ending in human head, and with the holes much grooved and worn by use",,,,,Yoruba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Nigeria,wood,,,carved,Height: 4.50 centimetres; Width: 53.30 centimetres; Depth: 15.50 centimetres,,"Register 1951:
Wooden carved gameboard with 12 holes in 2 rows, ending in human head, & with the holes much grooved & worn by use.
For mancala (warri).  
Probably Yoruba,  S.NIGERIA.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the world'","Register 1951:
Much grooved & worn by use.",,,,,,Purchased from: Miss B McTaggart,,,,1951,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1951,05.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_16/517f5dc4_710a_4fa2_95ae_a3b7010b6504/preview_00084442_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1990,08.1.a",,,,Mancala board carved from wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Kilwa Kisiwani,wood,,,carved,"Height: 4.30 centimetres a ; Height: 1.20 centimetres b - largest ; Height: 1.10 centimetres b - smallest ; Width: 32.50 centimetres a ; Width: 2 centimetres b - largest ; Width: 1.50 centimetres b - smallest ; Depth: 61 centimetres a ; Depth: 1.90 centimetres b - largest ; Depth: 1.30 centimetres b - smallest ",,"Kilwa does not appear to exist on its own as town name; 3 coastal towns begin Kilwa e.g. Kilwa Kivinje, Masoko, Kisiwani. (AMD,6/1990).",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'
2006/7, Kenya, Nairobi Gallery, Hazina: Traditions, Trade and Transitions in Eastern Africa",Fair.,,,,,,Purchased from: Stephen Oliver Taylor,,,,1990,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1990,08.1.a",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Af1933,1120.32",,,,Mancala (mweso) board made of wood.,,,,,Bunyoro,,,,,Found/Acquired: Uganda,wood,,,,Height: 12 centimetres; Width: 49 centimetres; Depth: 30 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Katikiro Bunyoro-Kitara; Donated by: E J Wayland,,,,1933,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1933,1120.32",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Af1989,05.3.a",,,,Game-board (for mancala ?) made of wood.,,,,,Fulbe,,,,,Found/Acquired: Bafata,wood,,,,Height: 7 centimetres; Weight: 38 grammes; Width: 62 centimetres; Depth: 13 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Malcolm Donald McLeod,1989,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1989,05.3.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/1d7ed55e_fa1b_45e6_8e58_a3b800e7a8ef/preview_01355819_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.20",,,,Mancala board; carved from wood.,,,,,,,,19thC,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,carved,Height: 3 centimetres; Weight: 251 grammes; Width: 23.80 centimetres; Depth: 8.20 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the World'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.20",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Am1936,1008.1",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Antigua (Caribbean),wood,,,,,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 3), 'Count and Capture (Mancala game-boards)'",,,,,,,Donated by: Miss C H Bell,,,,1936,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1936,1008.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_23/f2b24c4e_37fd_4343_b138_a3dd01860cf4/preview_01424452_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1886,1213.58.a",,,,Game board (for mancala) made of wood.,,,,,,,,19thC (mid),,Found/Acquired: Straits Settlements,wood,,,,Height: 7.20 centimetres; Weight: 602 grammes; Width: 53.50 centimetres; Depth: 10.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Government of Straits Settlements,,,,1886,Acquired for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition from the Commissioners for the Straits Settlements.,,Asia,,"As1886,1213.58.a","Miscellaneous number: As1966,+.58 (also registered as)",,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/10_23/ed70813b_12f9_4dd0_a141_a3df01882b91/preview_01563887_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1896,1223.1",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Malawi;  Found/Acquired: Zambia (?),wood,,,,Height: 17.40 centimetres; Width: 83.10 centimetres; Depth: 33.70 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1983-1986, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 9), 'Bemba'
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Alfred Sharpe,,,,1896,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1896,1223.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/be13a1e2_533d_4331_8fdf_a3ba013becbc/preview_00253739_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,30.8",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; pieces of wood nailed into shape of box with sliding lid (for storing pieces); board is made up of top of box (carved with six round cavities), second piece attached on metal hinge that folds down along side of box (carved with two round cavities), third piece of metal attached on hinge that folds along bottom of box (carved with six round cavities) with crosspiece nailed on to act as support when board is open, and to wrap around fourth side when folded closed; metal lock on fourth piece to lock board shut.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: India,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 11 centimetres; Weight: 1456 grammes; Width: 14.50 centimetres; Depth: 22 centimetres,,"The game is played using tamarind stones, small pebbles or cowrie shells. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1996,30.8",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Af1948,25.21",,,,"Register 1948:
Wooden mancala board with fourteen cups and base shaped like that of a stool.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Jaman,wood,,,,Height: 19 centimetres; Width: 63 centimetres; Depth: 16.40 centimetres,,"Register 1948:
Wooden mancala board with 14 cups & base shaped like that of a stool.
19- GOLD COAST & JAMAN.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1980 Sept., London, BM, Asante: Kingdom of Gold",,,,,,,Donated by: Mrs Annie Elizabeth Austin Freeman,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: R Austin Freeman,1948,"Register 1948:
Collected by the testator's husband in c. 1888 (see R Austin Freeman, ""Travel & Life in Ashanti & Jaman"" pp. 148-152, & figure of mask.)",,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1948,25.21",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/e3d06e5f_c330_4e7d_94ad_a3b800e88c39/preview_01356136_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.13",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 6.70 centimetres; Weight: 2.460 grammes; Width: 38.80 centimetres; Depth: 20.30 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.13",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Af1979,01.2481",,,,"Mancala board (with loop) made of wood, fibre (vegetable), hide (with hair).",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Uganda (?),wood; fibre; skin; hair,,,,Height: 4.80 centimetres; Width: 48 centimetres; Depth: 35.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,From: Bernard Fagg (?); From: William Buller Fagg (?),,,,,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1979,01.2481",Miscellaneous number: Af1974Q1.766,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/11_4/0208cab0_5608_4f59_99e4_a3c1004903d5/preview_00599057_001.jpg,mancala-board; stopper,"No: Af1935,0114.4.a-b",,,,Mancala-board (a); carved of wood; two-row board with twelve playing holes and trianguilar storage hole at either end. Central hollow columnar support for storage of playing pieces with removeable wooden stopper (b) in form of human head with ringed neck. One end of board has handle in form of second human head wiht ringed neck. Geometric designs carved on top surface;  chain pattern carved along side of board.,,,,,,,,1900-1935 (circa),Made in: Sierra Leone,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood,,,carved,"Height: 18.50 centimetres a+b (stopper) ; Height: 23 centimetres a ; Height: 10 centimetres b ; Width: 70 centimetres a ; Width: 3.20 centimetres b ; Depth: 17 centimetres a ; Depth: 4.10 centimetres b ",,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the world'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Gerald P L Miles,,,,1935,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1935,0114.4.a-b","Other BM number: Af1935,0114.4 (previously registered as)",,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/3_7/baaa54e9_b8d3_480d_acab_a3b9007e33e8/preview_00350792_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1903,0518.35.a",,,,Mancala board carved from wood with fibre cord.,,,,,Kikuyu; Masai,,,,,Found/Acquired: Kenya,wood; fibre,,,carved,"Height: 73 centimetres a board ; Height: 28 centimetres b bag ; Height: 1 centimetres c-cl each pebble (average) ; Width: 9.50 centimetres a board ; Width: 18 centimetres b bag ; Width: 1.50 centimetres c-cl each pebble (average) ; Depth: 5.50 centimetres a board ; Depth: 4 centimetres b bag ; Depth: 1.20 centimetres c-cl each pebble (average) ",,"Register addition ""Kikuyu"".",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'
2006/7, Kenya, Nairobi Gallery, Hazina: Traditions, Trade and Transitions in Eastern Africa",,,,,,,Purchased from: Dr Christian David Ginsburg,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Mrs Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde,1903,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1903,0518.35.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_23/83fa96d4_6713_4a51_b67e_a3dc0181ac63/preview_01336154_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1938,1010.10",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,Yoruba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Nigeria (?),wood,,,,Height: 5 centimetres; Width: 53 centimetres; Depth: 18.50 centimetres,,"Register addition ""Nigeria"".
Register addition ""Yoruba"".",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Mrs A M Halligey-Charles,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Rev John T F Halligey,1938,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1938,1010.10",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/16_7/aa13ed42_574f_4f2a_b24f_a3c600827360/preview_00985402_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1935,1108.275.a",,,,"Mancala board, Lelo Gobaley, carved from wood, with local repair using two large iron nails to secure a crack.",,,,,Bajun,,,,,Found/Acquired: Somalia,wood; iron,,,carved,"Height: 6 centimetres board ; Height: 1.50 centimetres largest game piece ; Height: 1.20 centimetres smallest game piece ; Width: 56 centimetres board ; Width: 1.90 centimetres largest game piece ; Width: 1.20 centimetres smallest game piece ; Depth: 25.40 centimetres board ; Depth: 2 centimetres largest game piece ; Depth: 1.50 centimetres smallest game piece ",,Known in Somali as Lelo Gobaley this game board more commonly has only two rows rather than four.,,Not on display,,Good,,,,,,Donated by: Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton; Donated by: Miss Diana Powell-Cotton,,,,1935,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1935,1108.275.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/22d2ff18_62fd_4c7c_b349_a3b800e7afa0/preview_01355823_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.22",,,,Mancala board (fish-shaped) made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 6.70 centimetres; Weight: 1.142 kilograms; Width: 39.80 centimetres; Depth: 13.10 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.22",Miscellaneous number: As1972Q1.722,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_15/18a02f0e_4657_41c4_9777_a3dd01064e80/preview_01380456_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1931,0505.1",,,,Mancala board; carved from wood; lacquered.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: China,wood; lacquer,,,lacquered,Height: 3 centimetres; Weight: 746 grammes; Width: 49 centimetres; Depth: 13.40 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the world'
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,Purchased from: G Rayson,,,,1931,,,Asia,,"As1931,0505.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/14_13/77d1b7e8_ba93_4194_b1f3_a3c400d66fa4/preview_00858164_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1956,07.1",,,,Wooden carved game board for playing azigo. The board has two rows of six square holes with a large oval hole for storing captured seeds at either end. The board has deeply carved diagonal decoration on both sides and along the centre. The holes have slight horizintal grooves worn in them by the fingers of the players during games. The board stands on two feet carved from the body of the board and placed centrally along the sides of the board.,,,,,Ekoi,,,,Made in: Nigeria,Found/Acquired: Nigeria,wood,,,carved,Height: 8.30 centimetres; Weight: 3.10 kilograms; Width: 69.50 centimetres; Depth: 17.10 centimetres,,,"Partridge 1905 / Cross River natives : being some notes on the primitive pagans of Obubura hill district, Southern Nigeria, including a description of the circles of upright sculptured stones on the left bank of the Aweyong River.",Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",Good condition: Single crack (humidity damage) running through the centre of the object from one end.,sport/pastime,,,,,Bequeathed by: Charles Partridge; Bequeathed through: Everett Partridge,,,,1956,This collection was made in Nigeria during Charles Partridge's Government Service 1901-1918.,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1956,07.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_21/12e8d2c6_3e15_4a64_b220_a3b50161889c/preview_00171166_001.jpg,mancala-board; game-board,"No: Af1996,15.1.a-ay",,,,"Folding game-board (a) for playing oware (mancala) made of red-stained wood; two metal hinges on outside. Two-row board, each row has six wide circular playing holes. Surface of lid incised with head and horned headdress. 50 playing seeds (b-ay).",,,,,,,,1995-1996 (?),Made in: Ghana,Found/Acquired: Accra,wood; caesalpinia bonduc seed,,,stained; incised,"Height: 5.50 centimetres a (closed) ; Height: 2.60 centimetres a (open) ; Weight: 137 grammes seeds (b-ay) ; Width: 40 centimetres a (closed) ; Width: 40 centimetres a (open) ; Depth: 6.50 centimetres a (closed) ; Depth: 13.60 centimetres a (open) ",,"Mancala is a generic term applied to a specific family of count-and-capture games. Mancala games are widely distributed and are played in most parts of Africa, the Middle East, Central, South and Southeast Asia, some of the Caribbean islands and parts of South America. Boards may have two, three or four rows of playing holes. 
This two-row board from Ghana is used to play oware, one of the most popular forms of the game. Some oware boards are decorated with animals or fish, others are incised with patterns that are also used on stamped textiles (adinkra). These are named and have local significance. One of the most prestigious designs is 'Gye Nyame' (except God (I fear none)).",,Not on display,,Good. Split in one place.,,,,,,Purchased through: Paul Smit; Purchased through: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,,1996,"The game-board was purchased by a friend of the donor in a market in Accra, Ghana, in the first half of September 1995.",,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1996,15.1.a-ay",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_17/9eac5268_fe28_4245_ae90_a3b8012872fb/preview_00320275_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1956,27.21",,,,Wooden board for playing mańcala.,,,,,Ma,,,,,Found/Acquired: Côte d'Ivoire,wood,,,,Height: 19.50 centimetres; Width: 62 centimetres; Depth: 14.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Margaret Plass,,,,1956,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1956,27.21",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/10_11/b2a2d033_f8db_4270_9561_a3c000be1154/preview_00549486_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1944,04.191",,,,Mancala-board; carved of wood; boat-shaped board with square pedestal; twelve round cavities with triangular cavity on either end carved on top; side of pedestal carved with geometric pattern.,,,,,Mende,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood,,,carved,Height: 17.50 centimetres; Width: 70 centimetres; Depth: 16 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Irene Marguerite Beasley,,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: Blackmore Museum, Salisbury; Previous owner/ex-collection: Harry Geoffrey Beasley",1944,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1944,04.191",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/17_20/5eb19c54_882d_44d7_bca3_a3e601545927/preview_01609624_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1922,0609.14",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Kilimanjaro (region);  Found/Acquired: Kenya,wood,,,,Height: 5.80 centimetres; Width: 64.40 centimetres; Depth: 32.80 centimetres,,"From acquisition ""mancala"".",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Misses Partington,,,,1922,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1922,0609.14",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_14/cc2bc7b2_75a8_4c74_b228_a3b800e88dd1/preview_01356137_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1898,0703.15",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood,,,,Height: 5.60 centimetres; Weight: 708 grammes; Width: 32 centimetres; Depth: 19 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.15",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/6_20/19e78257_63b2_40d4_b770_a3db01499d50/preview_01266217_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1993,13.12.a",,,,"Four-row mancala board carved out of a single block of wood. Four rows of eight holes, all circular except for two central opposing square holes. Single tear-shaped storage hole at one end.",,,,,,,,20thC(late),,Found/Acquired: Zambia (North),wood,,,carved,Height: 6 centimetres; Width: 81.80 centimetres; Depth: 29 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",fair,,,,,,Purchased from: Stephen Oliver Taylor,,,,1993,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1993,13.12.a",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_23/35df9db5_8564_43ee_b2ef_a3dc0181e9b3/preview_01336233_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1893,0715.17.a",,,,"Mancala-board (hinged) made of wood, leather.",,,,,,,,19thC,,Found/Acquired: Ethiopia,wood; leather,,,,"Height: 4 centimetres a ; Height: 20.50 centimetres b ; Width: 61.80 centimetres a ; Width: 7.40 centimetres b ; Depth: 20.40 centimetres a ; Depth: 5.40 centimetres b ",,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the World'
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: James Theodore Bent,,,,1893,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1893,0715.17.a",Miscellaneous number: Af1973Q1.634,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_23/60d3b9d5_c812_4b05_868f_a3dc0181cb2c/preview_01336168_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: Af1963,13.13",,,,Mancala board made of wood.,,,,,Yoruba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Nigeria,wood,,,,Height: 6.40 centimetres; Width: 59.50 centimetres; Depth: 17.20 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Methodist Missionary Society,,,,1963,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1963,13.13",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/11_15/6961be78_4629_4a83_8323_a3c100fc498c/preview_00666539_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,07.2",,,,"Mancala (Dakon) board; carved of wood; rectangular piece of wood with four legs attached on bottom, each small end carved as a naga head, with body carved down side. Twenty circular cavities carved on upper surface; painted red and black and gilded.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Java,,wood,,,carved; painted,Height: 24 centimetres; Weight: 1.76 kilograms; Width: 82.50 centimetres; Depth: 15.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited: 
2005 22 Jan-16 Jun, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Across the Board 
2005 23 Jul-17 Sep, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Across the Board 
2005 1 Oct-31 Dec, Gosport, Discovery Centre, Across the Board 
2006 28 Jan-1 May, Leicester, New Walk Museum & Gallery, Across the Board 
2006 26 May-3 Sep, Lincoln, City and County Museum, Across the Board 
2006-2007 23 Sep-21 Jan, Luton Museum, Across the Board",,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,07.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_21/23d08a9c_ada8_469d_852d_a3b50164db17/preview_00172194_001.jpg,mancala-board; game-board,"No: Af1996,17.1.a-bl",,,,"Boat-shaped game-board (a) for playing wari (mancala) made of wood with square solid base. Two-row board, each row has six deep circular playing holes and two triangular end holes for storing captured playing pieces. Upper surface of board decorated with incised scalloped lines; two blackened channels separate the playing holes from the end holes. Sixty-three playing seeds (b-bl).",,,,,Mende,,,1975-1996 (circa),Made in: Sierra Leone (?),Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone (?),wood; caesalpinia bonduc seed,,,incised,"Height: 13.50 centimetres a ; Width: 65.50 centimetres a ; Depth: 9.50 centimetres a ",,"Mancala is a generic term applied to a specific family of count-and-capture games. Mancala games are widely distributed and are played in most parts of Africa, the Middle East, Central, South and Southeast Asia, some of the Caribbean islands and parts of South America. Boards may have two, three or four rows of playing holes. 
The boat-shaped form of this two-row board suggests that it is from Sierra Leone where it would have been used to play wari. Boat-shaped boards are very popular in Sierra Leone; however, they also occur along the Guinea coast and in Kenya and Gabon.",,Not on display,,Fair; whiteish deposits in places. Abraded and with slight chips throughout. Major split through base and underside of board at one side.,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg; Purchased through: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,,1996,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1996,17.1.a-bl",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/34bfab7b_3b3f_4315_9676_a3ba013c283d/preview_00253709_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,30.4",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; outside carved with flowers and curvilinear designs; inside of each piece carved with eight round cavities and curvilinear designs around cavities; traces of red paint visible on inside.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kerala (State);  Retailed in: Mumbai,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 2.80 centimetres open ; Height: 4.50 centimetres; Weight: 1265 grammes; Width: 41 centimetres; Depth: 13 centimetres; Depth: 26 centimetres,,"The game is played using tamarind stones, small pebbles or cowrie shells. Boards in the shape of fish occur frequently in southern India and Sri Lanka. The coastal location and the local reliance on fishing as a principal means of livelihood may partly explain this. Concerns with fertility may also be reflected in the use of fish-shaped boards. Games may be played on special occasions or at propitious times of the year in the hope of ensuring a good crop of fish and thus the well-being and prosperity of the local people. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1996,30.4",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/3_18/03ea6555_bf1e_4a4f_a26b_a3b90132badb/preview_00216821_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,31.1",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a heart, joined together with two metal hinges; three metal feet attached to outside of each heart to support board when open; metal handle at centre of top heart; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities and central irregular cavity; two metal hooks screwed on near point of top heart, two metal eyes screwed in near point of bottom heart to hold board closed.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Chennai,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 12 centimetres; Weight: 918 grammes; Width: 16 centimetres; Depth: 18.50 centimetres,,"The game is played using tamarind stones, small pebbles or cowrie shells. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Joss Graham Oriental Textiles,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,,,Asia,,"As1996,31.1",,,
,mancala-board,"No: Af1946,18.208",,,,Large wooden mancala board with sixteen holes.,,,,,Jaba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Nok;  Found/Acquired: Kwoi,wood,,,,Height: 22 centimetres; Width: 149.50 centimetres; Depth: 29 centimetres,,"Register 1946:
Wooden board, mancala, large. 16 holes.
See also Af1946,18.161
Kwoi, Nok, Jaba.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: D H F Wilson,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Hermann Justus Braunholtz,1946,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1946,18.208",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/5373d5d4_a98a_481b_bd53_a3ba013c2563/preview_00253707_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,30.2",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; mouth, gills, fins and scales carved on outside; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities and one rectangular cavity; metal hook screwed into one piece and metal eye into opposite piece for holding board closed.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Tamil Nadu;  Retailed in: Mumbai,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 8.50 centimetres closed ; Height: 5 centimetres open ; Weight: 2361 grammes; Width: 53 centimetres; Depth: 12 centimetres; Depth: 22.90 centimetres,,"The game is played using tamarind stones, small pebbles or cowrie shells. Boards in the shape of fish occur frequently in southern India and Sri Lanka. The coastal location and the local reliance on fishing as a principal means of livelihood may partly explain this. Concerns with fertility may also be reflected in the use of fish-shaped boards. Games may be played on special occasions or at propitious times of the year in the hope of ensuring a good crop of fish and thus the well-being and prosperity of the local people. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1996,30.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/f53d79ee_191e_4dc7_bfd6_a3ba01453bc9/preview_00256276_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.3",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; made of marble; rectangular piece of marble with semicircular protrusion on each short side; carved with six round cavities along each long side and one on each semicircular protrusion, two rectangular cavities at centre; etched with line painted black around outside; rectangular cavities each have line etched around outside, painted brown; ""MRST"" etched at centre, painted black; wooden support (carved along bottom) attached on underside of each short side.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,marble; wood,,,carved; etched; painted,Height: 8 centimetres; Weight: 814 kilograms; Width: 46 centimetres; Depth: 23 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.3",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_20/9ddd1982_38c6_4a32_9831_a3ba014df92d/preview_00258700_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,09.1",,,,"Mancala board; carved of wood; rectangular piece of wood carved with four legs on underside, top carved with seven round cavities along each long side, flower and leaves carved at centre with large rectangular cavity on either side, squares carved around edge.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kandy,,wood,,,carved,Height: 6 centimetres; Weight: 2 kilograms; Width: 32 centimetres; Depth: 18.50 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,09.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/ea562e89_dcf7_4ad8_b895_a3ba014556c0/preview_00256294_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.7",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; eye, mouth, fins and tail carved on outside; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 9.40 centimetres closed ; Height: 17.20 centimetres open ; Weight: 942 grammes; Width: 39.10 centimetres; Depth: 2.90 centimetres; Depth: 5.30 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.7",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/ac8fd31b_a0f4_439d_b657_a3ba01442190/preview_00256061_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1996,33.2",,,,"Mancala board; carved of apricot wood; two rectangular pieces of wood with rounded ends joined together with two metal hinges, triangular notch at one end; inside of each piece carved with seven large round cavities surrounded by inlays of mother-of-pearl heart, diamonds, circles and chevrons; metal hook attached to side of one piece of wood, metal nail in opposite piece of wood to hold board closed.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Palmyra;  Retailed in: Aleppo,,wood; metal; mother-of-pearl,,,carved; inlaid,Height: 6.50 centimetres; Weight: 860 grammes; Width: 62 centimetres; Depth: 7.50 centimetres,,"See Gupta, Hem Ch. Das. ""Notes on a Type of Sedentary Game prevalent in many parts of India."" In: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. New Series. 1923: XIX, 71-74.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,Middle East,,"As1996,33.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/f87d1a5f_fd19_47f2_aced_a3ba0145529a/preview_00256291_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.8",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; mouth, fins and tail carved on outside; brass tack in place for eye; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal; brass,,,carved,Height: 15.50 centimetres open ; Height: 8.10 centimetres; Weight: 903 grammes; Width: 45 centimetres; Depth: 3.20 centimetres; Depth: 5.50 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.8",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/d4851928_611d_47d1_a9a2_a3ba01454870/preview_00256283_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.5",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; carved of wood; two pieces of wood, each carved in the shape of a fish, joined together with metal hinges; eye and scales carved on outside; four brass tacks on one side, possibly once holding plate on the side; inside of each piece carved with seven round cavities, ovoid cavity near tail, and curved lines; metal eye screwed to one piece to hold board closed (metal hook on opposite piece missing).",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,wood; metal; brass,,,carved,Height: 5 centimetres open ; Height: 9 centimetres; Weight: 4231 grammes; Width: 63.50 centimetres; Depth: 33.70 centimetres open ; Depth: 18 centimetres,,"See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,fish,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.5",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_19/190d2f9e_4c90_45e2_bb32_a3ba01452a83/preview_00256265_001.jpg,mancala-board,"No: As1997,21.1",,,,"Mancala (pallankuli) board; made of brass; rectangular piece of metal with edges folded down and cut into scalloped shape along bottom edge; fourteen round cavities on top, with raised rosette and two rectangular cavities at centre; word etched below rosette; two axels (each with two wheels) attached to underside.",,,,,,,,1990s,Made in: Kochi,,brass,,,etched,Height: 7 centimetres; Weight: 1611 grammes; Width: 37.50 centimetres; Depth: 21 centimetres,,"Brass or silver game-boards are used during wedding celebrations in southern India. See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Brownrigg,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1997,Cost for entire collection.,,Asia,,"As1997,21.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/4_17/4e7bb1c8_e1ae_4bc4_bb20_a3d9011d00c3/preview_01177950_001.jpg,model; game-board; divination equipment,"No: Af1932,0514.18",,,,"Model, game-board, divination outfit (part of) made of wood.",,,,,Mbundu,,,,,Found/Acquired: Dondi (?),wood,,,,Height: 3.40 centimetres; Width: 1.50 centimetres; Depth: 0.30 centimetres,,"See Ethdoc 192 - Notes on the Divining Basket from the Ovimbundu tribe, Dondi, Angola - L S Tucker, 30.5.1932
... 17. Ochela, native game, means same as Af1932,0514.17 - ... the affair pertains to your whole village or clan. Go talk it over in council.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Mrs L S Tucker,,,,1932,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1932,0514.18",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2018_4/21_17/4a74d966_6d6c_4d7a_bad3_a8c90118540b/preview_ship_model__MCN15611_a.jpg,model; cribbage-board,"No: 1894,0612.2",,,,"Ship-model/cribbage-board; bone and wood; HMS Victory; no masts or superstructure; groups of holes in deck for counting, row of guns either side; wooden stand covered with green cloth.",,,,,,,,19thC(early) (?),Made in: England (?),,bone; wood; cotton,,,,Length: 27.40 centimetres; Width: 8.20 centimetres,,"Attached old label reads 'The Bekkedore collection No 6 /""The Victory"" with Nelson's figurehead / Cut in Ivory / a rare Curiosity'.",,Not on display,,,boat/ship; arms/armour,Associated with: HMS Victory,,,HMS Victory,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1894,,,"Britain, Europe and Prehistory",,"1894,0612.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_18/e4389ec7_b615_4b29_97ec_a3ba0130c52f/preview_00250056_001.jpg,paduk-board; counter-box; game-box,"No: 1996,1001.1.a-e",,,,"Wooden 'paduk'-board, with two wooden lidded boxes containing black stone and white shell circular game-pieces.",,,,,,,Joseon Dynasty,19thC,Made in: Korea,,wood; stone; shell,,,carved,"Diameter: 9.70 centimetres Go stone boxes (each) ; Height: 9.30 centimetres Go stone boxes ; Height: 27.40 centimetres board ; Length: 39 centimetres board ; Width: 39.50 centimetres board ",,"Portal 2000:
Played mainly by men, this game is also popular in China, where it is known as ""wei qi"", and in Japan, where it is known as ""go"". However, the Korean 'paduk' board differs from the Japanese in that it is a small hollow table as opposed to the Japanese solid block. Wires streched across inside the Korean board make it resonate whenever a piece is laid on it.; 2016 National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage catalogue entries:
'This Korean traditional go board, dating to the Joseon, was made by fixing a wooden board on a square wooden table with four wooden nails on each side. Each side of the table is cut in a low semicircle at the bottom, and the table’s four corners are supported by wooden feet.'
'조선 시대의 전통 양식이 잘 남아있는 바둑판이다. 네 개의 통판 다리로 만든 정방형의 틀에 판을 맞대고 나무못을 각각 4개씩 박아 고정하였다. 판각다리의 네 귀 지면에는 꺽쇠형 발을 대었다. 선의 교차점 3칸마다 십자형 화점花點 25개를 장식하였다. 이는 화점 9개로 두는 현재의 바둑과는 규칙이 다른 한국 고유의 순장 바둑을 위한 것이다. 바둑알집은 통목을 갈이틀[물레]에 갈아서 만들었다.'",Portal 2000 / Korea: Art and Archaeology; National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage 2016 / Korean Collections at the British Museum; 국립문화재연구소 2016 / 영국박물관 소장 한국문화재,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Mrs Yi Doo-Young 이두영,Funded by: British Museum Friends (as British Museum Society),,,1996,,,Asia,,"1996,1001.1.a-e",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/15_7/111ca47e_72f8_44f8_abc9_a3c5007abdb4/preview_00921439_001.jpg,peg; warri-board,"No: Af1950,15.1.b",,,,"Peg; carved of wood; rounded wooden peg with flower-shaped knob at one end, for locking pieces into Warri-board.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone (?),wood,,,carved,Diameter: 2.50 centimetres; Length: 14 centimetres,,"Accompanies board and drawer Af1950,15.1a&c.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Purchased from: J C Cross,,,,1950,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1950,15.1.b",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2015_12/29_13/e0c8c931_7c04_46d9_99da_a57d00daa869/preview_DSC_0270.jpg,Pope Joan board,"No: 1970,0103.1",,,,"Pope Joan board; pearlware; circular dish divided radially by uprights into seven trays and with shallow cup in centre; four trays contain painted representations of playing cards depicting the King, Queen and Knave of Diamonds, and the Ace of Spades enclosing the emblem of the Order of the Garter with motto, and surmounted by crown; remaining trays are inscribed; cup in centre with painted representation of the Nine of Diamonds; two of the tray uprights are cracked; cup rim slightly chipped; three small cracks in base.",,,,,,,,1830 (circa),Made in: Staffordshire,,earthenware,,,painted,Diameter: 24.10 centimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription position: trays Inscription quoted: Matrimony Intrigue Game; Inscription type: inscription Inscription position: garter Inscription language: Latin Inscription quoted: HONI.SOIT.QVI.MAL.Y.PENSE,,,Not on display,,,heraldry; king/queen; card-playing,Emblem of: Order of the Garter,,,,Purchased from: A Sampson; Purchased from: David Seligmann,,,,1970,,,"Britain, Europe and Prehistory",,"1970,0103.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/6_10/47de5bfc_a983_4208_ac1b_a3bc00b0f421/preview_00406453_001.jpg,Pope Joan board,"No: 1887,0210.132",,,,"Pope Joan board, tin-glazed earthenware, moulded with a central circular compartment and five radiating compartments, painted in colours with playing card designs: ace, king, queen, knave of hearts and nine of diamonds and inscribed 'GAME' in the centre.",,,,,,,Post-Medieval,1750-1770 (circa),Made in: England (Liverpool or Bristol),,earthenware,delftware,,tin-glazed; painted,Diameter: 26.90 centimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: GAME,"The nine of diamonds is known as the Pope, and this gaming dish was for the game of Pope Joan, a card game first recorded in Britain in 1732. It wsa popular in the 19th century and is mentioned in 'Pickwick Papers'.
For a pearlware Pope Joan board see reg. no. 1970,0103.1",Hobson 1903 / Catalogue of the collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquites and Ethnography of the British Museum (Fig.110); Grigsby 2000 / The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware; Dawson 2010 / English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840,Not on display,"Exhibited:
2010-2011 1 May-9 Jan, London, British Museum,  Room 2,  Recent Publications from British Museum Press",Large piece of rim missing - August 2006. Rim restored for publication.,,,,,,Purchased from: Henry Willett,,,,1887,,,"Britain, Europe and Prehistory",,"1887,0210.132",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/95a58b99_064c_48e0_b742_a3bb005bb10a/preview_00304384_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.41",Giuoco dell' Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered  compartments from 1 to 62,  arranged in a spiral around a central panel, in which are detailed the rules. 1853
Lithograph",Published by: Carlo Minolfi,,,,,,,1853,,,paper,,,lithograph,"Height: 435 millimetres printed area ; Width: 356 millimetres printed area ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the central panel, the title and various instructions for playing the game, In the bottom right corner ""Presso la Cartoleria Litografia/ di Carlo Minolfi""; in the top right corner ""In Roma Piazza di Co-/ lonna Trojana 44""; in top left corner ""Dicembre 1853 con permesso/ di Superior"".",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.41",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_14/9a5f164f_3c78_404b_b81e_a3e100f28977/preview_00106381_001.jpg,print; ornament print; game-board,"No: 1873,0809.894",,,,"Ornamental designs for a backgammon board; with satyrs seated on strapwork borders filled with arabesque ornaments; two triangular section forming a rectangle above, in lower margin a cartouche with Solis's name.
Engraving",Print made by: Virgil Solis,,,,,,,1530-1562,,,paper,,,engraving,Height: 158 millimetres; Width: 31 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered in lower cartouche: 'Ver=/ gilius/ So=/ lis'
and at lowr r and upper left: 'Pretspielspitzen'.",,"Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700; O'Dell-Franke 1977 / Kupferstiche und Radierungen aus der Werkstatt des Virgil Solis; Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur",Not on display,,,ornament,,,,,"Purchased from: H G Gutekunst (Stuttgart, 20.v.1873/1536)",,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Count Giacomo Durazzo,1873,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1873,0809.894",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/dd4d71d3_b2ec_43ea_b896_a3b501073f50/preview_00141671_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.458.+",Il gioco del aquila (Object),,,"Game board with the Imperial eagle and commanders with defeated Turks, each position marked with a different throw of the dice.  c.1690
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1683-1690,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 420 millimetres; Width: 297 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, in five lines continuing with the rules of the game; signed 'G M Mitelli I F' at the top right.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,turk,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.458.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/1190dc2c_3f90_4bfc_b720_a3da009b39ec/preview_01136478_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.8",Il nobilissimo et dilettevole giuoco del gambaro (Object),,,"Game board with a path leading through a landscape, marked with 51 numbered divisions, each marked with a different vice that has to be overcome
Etching",Attributed to: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli;  Attributed to: Francesco Maria Francia,,,,,,,1675-1718,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 335 millimetres; Width: 467 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper right in pen 'VIII'
Titled along the top, followed by four lines giving the rules of the game
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","The attribution to Mitelli is doubted by Bertarelli. He suggests that the author might be F.M.Francia.
For comment, see 1893,0331.1
For another impression, see 1852,0612.488","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.8",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/e8fa6efb_b220_431f_b7b7_a3bb005caa78/preview_00304645_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.450.+",Il dilettevol giuoco del pellegrinaggio d'amore (Object),,,"Game board with a path bearing numbers leading through a landscape, with various figures representing the perils of love, and other figures undertaking the journey. The path concludes by leading through a gateway to a large house with a formal garden, where couples promenade.
Etching",After: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli;  Print made by: Francesco Maria Francia,,,,,,,1675-1718,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 384 millimetres; Width: 542 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled in a banner along the top, followed by seven lines giving the rules of the game. Signed ""FM Francia fece"" in lower right corner",Bertarelli suggests that the game-board was designed by Mitelli and executed by F.M.Francia.,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,love (allegorical),,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.450.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/c3d29d34_23ab_404b_828b_a3da009b291b/preview_01136474_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.5",Gioco nuovo del contento (Object),,,"Game board with 43 numbered positions, each named with an abstraction and with an appropriate image beside it
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 317 millimetres; Width: 453 millimetres plate-mark ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper right in pen 'V'
Titled along the top, followed in six lines with the rules of the game; signed 'Mitelli I E Fec' at the bottom right.
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","For comment, see 1893,0331.1
For another impression, see 1852,0612.459*","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,allegory/personification,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.5",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/ce935a82_3f46_40fb_bf8e_a3bb005ee079/preview_00305320_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.111",Nouveau jeu historique et cronologique des Rois de France (Object),,,"Game board with 66 numbered compartments, each containing a medallion of a King of France, with details of his reign; in the centre, the rules of the game in two columns
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Jean Baptiste Crépy,,,,,,,1774 (after),,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 448 millimetres; Width: 570 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title  and rules in centre of the board; in lower left corner, beneath the the margin of the board ""à Paris chez Crepy rue S. Jacques à S. Pierre prés la rue de la parcheminerie"" and to r ""Avec Privilege du Roi""",,,Not on display,,,,"Representation of: Pharamond, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Chlodio, King of the Salian Franks;  Representation of: Mérovée, King of the Salian Franks;  Representation of: Childebert I, King of Paris;  Representation of: Clovis I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Clotaire I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Childebert II, King of Austrasia;  Representation of: Childebert IV (Childebert III), King of the Franks;  Representation of: Clotaire II, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Dagobert I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Clovis II, King of Neustria and Burgundy;  Representation of: Clotaire III, King of Neustria;  Representation of: Childeric II, King of Austrasia and Neustria;  Representation of: Thierry I;  Representation of: Clovis IV, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Dagobert II, King of Austrasia;  Representation of: Chilperic II, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Thierry II, King of Austrasia and Burgundy;  Representation of: Childeric III, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Pepin the Short, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Emperor Charlemagne;  Representation of: Louis I the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks;  Representation of: Charles II the Bald, King of France;  Representation of: Louis II, King of France;  Representation of: Louis III, King of France;  Representation of: Charles III the Fat, Emperor;  Representation of: Eudes, King of Western Francia;  Representation of: Charles III the Simple, King of Western Francia and Lotharingia;  Representation of: Raoul, Duke of Burgundy and King of Western Francia;  Representation of: Louis IV, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Lothair, King of West Francia;  Representation of: Louis V, King of Western Francia (France);  Representation of: Hugues Capet, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Henri I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Philippe I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Louis VI, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Louis VII, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Philippe II (Philippe Auguste), King of France;  Representation of: Louis VIII, King of France;  Representation of: St Louis, King Louis IX of France;  Representation of: Philippe IV, King of France;  Representation of: Louis X, King of France;  Representation of: Philippe V, King of France;  Representation of: Charles IV, King of France;  Representation of: Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy;  Representation of: Jean II, King of France;  Representation of: Charles V, King of France;  Representation of: Charles VI, King of France;  Representation of: Charles VII, King of France;  Representation of: Louis XI, King of France;  Representation of: Charles VIII the Affable, King of France;  Representation of: Louis XII, King of France;  Representation of: François I, King of France;  Representation of: Henri II, King of France;  Representation of: François II, King of France;  Representation of: Charles IX, King of France;  Representation of: Henri III, King of France;  Representation of: Henri IV, King of France and Navarre;  Representation of: Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre;  Representation of: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre;  Representation of: Louis XV, King of France and Navarre",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.111",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/f01df962_8a62_4adc_9e37_a3bb005de0c1/preview_00305013_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.70",Le Nouveau Jeu des Cris de Paris (Object),,,"Game board with 44 numbered pictorial compartments arranged in a spiral, each representing one of the cries of Paris, with the cry beneath; the final compartment, wreathed in laurels representing a man handing out printed sheets and labelled ""l'Heureux"", and below ""Edit du Joieux Avenement""; in the centre, the rules of the game; in the lower left corner, a man standing on a scale, whilst weights are placed on the other side, to right, two dogs, one pissing on a parcel labelled ""N O"", the other defecating on some prints, the whole labelled ""La Balance""; in the lower right corner, a merry-go-round, labelled ""la Bague"", in the top right corner, a crowd of people watching a play ""le Fameux Polichinel"", labelled ""Les Parades""; in the top left corner, a man standing at a door, holding a sack, whilst another man pours the contents of a jug on his head from the window above, a line of musicians along the bottom, as though sitting in front of a stage, labelled ""les Battus paient/ l'Amande""
Etching",Published by: Jean Baptiste Crépy,,,,,,,1789 (after?),,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 490 millimetres approx ; Width: 680 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title  and the rules in the centre, as well as an ""Avertissement"", reading ""l'On trouvera chés le même Marchand un assortiment des Jeux/ d'Histoires, Géographiques, pour l'Instruction de la Jeunesse,/ et autres Jeux Récréatif et amusant, dont le Catalogue/ se distribue gratis"".  In the lower margin ""A Paris chés Crepy rue S. Jaques à S. Pierre près la rue de la parcheminerie""","In this print, a later impression of 1893,0331.69, all references to the royal family have been erased (the words 'royal' and 'noble', as well as the privilege and the crown above and the lettering above and below compartment number 44). This is presumably so that Crepy could continue publishing the board post-Revolution",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.70",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/d79f3694_9030_4fb1_8857_a3bb005df0dd/preview_00305017_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.72",Jeu de l'École militaire de l'empire Francais (Object),,,"Game board with an image of the École militaire, beneath which is a carriage with women walking behind it and men in front; beneath this, ten numbered compartments with different ranks of the military depicted in each one; instructions below
Etching",Published by: Veuve Chéreau,,,,,,,1804-1814,,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 530 millimetres; Width: 425 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along top; the rules in three columns in bottom panel; in bottom left ""A Paris, chez Mme. Vve. Chereau, Proprietre. Editr., Rue St. Jacques, No. 10"" and at bottom right ""Déposé à la Direction Impériale de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie""",,,Not on display,,,military,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.72",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/849d93b7_c46e_404f_908f_a3da009b1d18/preview_01136426_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.3",Gioco delle sposi e spose (Object),,,"Game board with twenty squares representing different episodes of the decline of a married couple, from wedding to penury, each marked for a different throw of the dice.  1691
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1691,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 317 millimetres; Width: 454 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper right in pen 'III'
Titled in a central panel with the rules of the game in seven lines; each square with a caption; signed 'Mi I E F 1691' at the bottom right.
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","For comment, see 1893,0331.1
For another impression, see 1852,0612.454*","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,marriage/wedding,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.3",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/d0c60120_4868_48b5_8826_a3b50107515b/preview_00141678_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.485",Il Giuoco gustoso della Simona e della Filippa compagne fideli (Object),,,"Game board with the story of Simona and Filippa, shown in twenty-four episodes, each square marked for a different throw of the dice.  1695
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1695,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 382 millimetres; Width: 540 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, continued with the rules of the game in one line, and with descriptions by each of the squares; signed 'Giuseppe Mitelli inv fece' in the top right with the date following on after the title.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.485",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/78f72956_9ec5_4cb5_885c_a3b5010739e2/preview_00141669_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.487",Il novo gioco degli asini ... (Object),,,"Game board with three riders on asses, one of who eats, another drinks and the third defecates; one rider holds a card with 'Noi siamo sette'  and two dice. 1687
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1687,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 243 millimetres; Width: 405 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top in three lines, continuing with the rules of the game; signed in lower left 'G M Mittelli In e Fe 1687'",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.487",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/d28535f2_0553_48f7_8da4_a3bb005fe43b/preview_00305627_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1897,1117.28",Le Prix de Sagesse ou La Fontaine en Jeu (Object),,,"Game board with 63 numbered pictorial compartments, each depicting a fable from La Fontaine, arranged in a spiral around a central compartment, in which are detailed the rules in English; brief summaries in verse of the fables in columns to left and to right. 1810
Etching with letterpress",Published by: Demonville,,,,,,,1810,,,paper,,,etching; letterpress,"Height: 425 millimetres sheet ; Width: 567 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: The title along the top; in the central panel ""La Fontaine in the Game of the Goose"" and the rules with the rules beneath; to the left of compartment 31 ""Mercure du 20 janvier 1810""; along bottom margin ""à Paris Chez Demonville Imprimeur Libraire, Rue Christine, No.2"" and at bottom left ""Déposé à la Bibliothèque Impériale""",,,Not on display,,,mythical figure/creature; classical mythology,Illustration to: Jean de La Fontaine,,,,Purchased from: Mrs Harriet Sowley Vinter,,,,1897,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1897,1117.28",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/12_21/c17e8adc_1965_4b8b_a063_a3c2015b986e/preview_00763091_001.jpg,print; game-board; playing-card,"No: 1896,0501.1290.1",,,,"Gameboard reproducing  five playing cards lettered ""Le Jeu de Nain Jaune"" (The Game of the Yellow Dwarf)
Hand-coloured etching
18th Century",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,Published in: France,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 270 millimetres sheet ; Width: 226 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Printed in the centre is ""Le Jeu de Nain Jaune"".","Information from Allan Valencia (personal communication, 29 October 2012): 
The game of the Yellow Dwarf was popular from about 1760-1800, enjoying a resurgence from about 1850-1870, and another from about 1920-40.  Mr Valencia's version, probably from 1850-1870, is in the form of a wooden box with a sliding lid, a little over 8 inches by 12 inches and about 2 inches deep; the inside back of the box has a similar design to the present example, although differing in detail.  Five removable cardboard boxes fit into the space, the four corner boxes having the inside corners truncated at an angle to make room for the square center box.  Each box has the same design in its bottom as the corresponding image on the back of the box.  This version came with a number of bone counters - two sizes of disks, two lengths of rectangles - in a number of different colours; there was probably originally also a pack of cards. The game can be played by 3 to 8 players. Each player starts with the same number of counters (50 is mentioned a number of times, but more might be needed for a longer game).  At the start of each round, each player places counters in each box, which represent the bonus cards - one to the ten of diamonds, two to the knave of clubs, 3 to the queen of hearts, 4 to the king of spades, and 5 to the 7 of diamonds, which is the Yellow Dwarf.  In most game terminology, these initial 15 counters from each player would be called the ante.  Each player is dealt an equal number of cards based on the number of players present, and a certain number of cards are set aside and not used in the game play for that round (3 players- 7 aside and 15 each player, 4 players- 4 aside and 12 each player, 5 players -7 aside and 9 each player, 6 players -4 aside and 8 each player, 7 players- 3 aside and 7 each player, 8 players - 4 aside and 6 each player). Setting aside some cards serves two purposes - one is to deal with the problem of the total card count not dividing equally among the players, and the second is to introduce ""stoppers"" to add interest to play - this increases the number of times when a sequence will end and a new one needs to be started. The player to the left of the dealer starts the round by laying down any card he chooses, then building up on that card in rank regardless of suit (Ace to King) till he can no longer continue.  The play then continues to the left with each player continuing the sequence.  If the King is reached in the sequence, the current player can start a new sequence using any card in his hand.  If all players have to pass because they can't play a card, the first player to pass can begin a new sequence using any card from his hand.  If a player plays one of the bonus cards, he takes the counters from the box for that bonus card.  If he forgets to take them, he forfeits them and they remain in the box for the next round.  The first player to lay down all his cards wins the round.  He receives counters from the other players based on the face count of the cards left in their hands (face cards are valued at 10, the rest 1 to 10, as marked). If the first player to start the round lays down all his cards in that first turn, he also takes the counters from all 5 boxes as an extra reward to the penalties he collects from the other players.  Laying down all cards in the first turn was called an ""Opera"".  If a player has one of the bonus cards remaining in his hand at the end of the round, he must pay an additional penalty by putting a number of counters into the box for that card to double the box's total counter value (if there are 10 counters in the box, the player adds an additional 10).  This is in addition to the 15 counter ante at the beginning of each round.  At the end of a round, if any of the bonus cards have not been played, the counters in those boxes remain for the next round and are then added to by the ante for the next round.  It seems that all 52 cards are shuffled at the beginning of each round and  the appropriate number set aside  again in the deal.  If any player doesn't have enough counters to pay at any point, the game ends and the winner is the player with the most counters. The different sizes appear to represent different values.
This game appears to be related to the game Pope Joan, possibly the result of a confused translation of Nain Jaune as ""Nun Joan"".",Schreiber / Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the British Museum by Lady Charlotte Schreiber,Not on display,,,,,,,,Bequeathed by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1896,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1896,0501.1290.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/2_21/3408fd58_5596_4ebb_94c9_a3d70160a56b/preview_01093570_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.139",Pomona: ein Conversations Spiel (Object),,,"Game-board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 34, arranged in six rows, although not in numerical order.  Each square shows a type of fruit, with its name and a score beneath; in a larger central square is a lady holding a bowl of fruit, with a large basket of fruit behind her
Lithograph",Published by: Johann Raab,,,,,,,18thC(late),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,lithograph,"Height: 410 millimetres approx ; Width: 333 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and the rules in 5 lines beneath; to right ""Nürnberg bei Joh: Raab.""",,,Not on display,,,fruit,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.139",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/b8c894bb_6c55_447a_ae54_a3bb005a7375/preview_00304126_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.82",Die Einquartirung. Ein sehr unterhaltendes Gesellschafts-Spiel (Object),,,"Game-board with two sets of rectangular compartments numbered from 1 to 24 and arranged in 3 rows of 8; the upper set depicting buildings; the lower set depicting different ranks of the military, the rules at bottom
Hand-coloured lithograph",Published by: Johann Raab,,,,,,,19thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,lithograph; hand-coloured,"Height: 400 millimetres approx ; Width: 302 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and the rules in 9 lines beneath; along the bottom to right ""Nürnberg bei Joh. Raab""",,,Not on display,,,military,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.82",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/41a7d40d_bc2a_4c6e_967b_a3bb005a60a1/preview_00304120_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.79",Das Uhr und Stunden Würfel Spiel (Object),,,"Game-board with a clock in the centre; a ring of circles around it, comprised of twelve larger circles, one for each hour, bearing moral instructions, alternating with smaller spheres on the half-hours; with illustrations for morning, noon, evening and night in the corners.
Etching",Published by: Johann Raab,,,,,,,18thC(late),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching,Height: 330 millimetres; Width: 405 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along the top and the rules in 4 lines beneath; along the bottom in the centre ""Fm Verlag bey Joh. Raab in Nürnberg""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.79",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_21/78d72384_2327_45f1_8f49_a3dc015bff3c/preview_01324633_001.jpg,print; popular print; game-board,"No: 2012,7020.31",Völker-Spiel. (Object),,,"Circular game-board with twenty five fields for cutting out; head and shoulders of a laughing Turkish man at the centre, directed to right, surrounded by twenty four figures of different nationalities wearing traditional costumes; below, numbers between 1 and 12 for cutting out; No.34 b from a series. 
Stencil-printed lithograph",Print made by: Anonymous;  Published by: Ackermann,,,,,,,1850-1899,Published in: Wissembourg,,paper,,,lithograph; stencil printing,"Height: 428 millimetres sheet ; Width: 348 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered at top right corner 'No. 34 b.', lettered below figures with their nationalities, each field numbered below and lettered with points gained or lost, lettered below board with publication detail: 'Imagerie alsacienne R  Ackermann Wissembourg succr. de F. C. Wentzel.', 'Déposé.', the title and rules of the game.",Published in the period when Elsass was part of Germany.,,Not on display,,,costume/clothing; turk,,,,,Purchased from: Dietrich Hecht,,,,2012,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2012,7020.31",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/19c37a2b_c478_4fc2_9eac_a3bb005a79ba/preview_00304128_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.99",Ein Offen Kartenspiel (Object); Belagerung und Einnehmung der Stadt Münden von der Kaijs: Armada underm Herrn Gen: Gr: Tillij: 1626 (Object),,,"Recto: circular gameboard, comprising 4 concentric rings, each divided into 12 compartments, each compartment bearing a playing card; a rose in centre, the rules in 3 columns beneath
Verso: Minden under attack.
Etching",Printed by: Abraham Hogenberg,,,,,,,1626,,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 312 millimetres trimmed ; Width: 239 millimetres trimmed ",,,"Hellwig 1983 / Franz Hogenberg - Abraham Hogenberg, Geschichtsblätter; Muller 1863-1882 / De Nederlandsche Geschiedenis in Platen. Beredeneerde Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Historieplaten",Not on display,,,card-playing,"Associated with: Jean de T'Serclaes, Count of Tilly",Topographic representation of: Minden,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.99",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.105",Das Poch Spiel (Object),,,"Circular game-board divided into eight segements, each of which contains a high value card from the suit of hearts; in the centre 'Einsatz'; in the corners decorative scrolls with ivy.
Hand-coloured lithograph",Published by: Robrahn & co.,,,,,,,1830-1850 (c.),Published in: Frankfurt am Main,,paper,,,lithograph; hand-coloured; letterpress,"Height: 385 millimetres approx ; Height: 182 millimetres page ; Width: 305 millimetres approx ; Width: 113 millimetres page ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Beneath the board to left ""Druck u. Verlag von Robrahn & Co. in Magdeburg"" and the rules in 12 lines",,,Not on display,,,card-playing,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.105",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/9ba36cde_e86d_41aa_bd70_a3bb005a665e/preview_00304122_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.77",Karten Lotterie Spiel (Object),,,"Circular game-board with three concentric rings, each divided into 32 compartments: the outer ring contains instructions; the next ring shows pictorial representations of cards from 7 through to ace in each suit; the inner ring shows the same cards as they are normally depicted; the central circle shows a domestic interior with an open door leading to a balcony to left, in front of which are two gentlemen, one bowing to the other; to right a lady and a gentleman playing cards at a table; a lady stands behind them.  Lettered with title and instructions at top.
Etching",Print made by: Johann Trautner,,,,,,,18thC(early),Printed in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 294 millimetres approx ; Width: 341 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In lower left corner ""No. 10"" (?), in lower right corner ""J. Trautner exc. Nor""",,,Not on display,,,card-playing,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.77",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/d07c2170_c477_4cb4_8777_a3bb005eedf7/preview_00305324_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.97",Jeu du Nouveau Testament (Object),,,"Game board with numbered compartments from 1 to 63 arranged in a spiral, each containing an image of an event in the New Testament history, with a description underneath; an apostle in each corner; the rules detailed in the centre
Etching with letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous;  Published by: Paul André Basset,,,,,,,1815-1819 (?),,,paper,,,etching; letterpress,"Height: 477 millimetres approx ; Width: 630 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along top of central panel and the rules; each compartment bears a description of its contents beneath; in bottom left ""A Paris chez Basset, Rue St. Jacques, No. 64' and  to r ""Déposé au Bureau des Estampes""",,,Not on display,,,new testament,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.97",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/8ce7f1d7_357f_44e4_9228_a3bb005e4005/preview_00305152_001.jpg,print; game-board; playing-card,"No: 1893,0331.95",Grand jeu du nouveau testament avec 120 figures (Object); Jeu et tableaux du nouveau testament (Object),,,"Sheet with three distinct games printed on it; (1) on the left of the recto, an incomplete (?) pack of playing-cards, each card within a compartment, all suits, each suit comprising ace, king, queen, knave, ten, nine, eight and seven, each compartment divided in half horizontally, and the top half divided again vertically, the left side bearing the playing-card, the right bearing a bust of an historical figure, the bottom half showing a numbered illustration of a motto or scene; the diamonds and hearts have within the top right section, ""Demandes"" above the bust and two questions, one either side of the bust; the clubs and the spades have in the same section ""Réponses"" and two replies either side of the bust; (2) on the right of the recto, the 'Jeu et tableaux du nouveau testament', with twenty-five scenes from the New Testament, numbered, although not in sequence; (3) on the verso the 'Grand jeu du nouveau testament avec 120 figures' comprising 25 compartments, all but one of which are subdivided into smaller pictorial or textual compartments, including illustrations of credences and scenes from the New Testament
Hand-coloured etchings",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1800 (circa),Printed in: Paris (France),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 300 millimetres (1) ; Height: 415 millimetres (2) ; Height: 391 millimetres (3) printed area ; Width: 377 millimetres (1) ; Width: 323 millimetres (2) ; Width: 485 millimetres (3) printed area ",,These games are possibly designed to be cut out into separate cards,,Not on display,,,new testament,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.95",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/180bda67_0ff9_405a_90e8_a3bb005c2582/preview_00304533_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1894,0405.1",Het Stoomboots Spel (Object),,,"Game-board with 60 numbered compartments, some with illustrations, a large illustration of a steamboat above the board and and the old gate of the city at number 60",Published by: A Daane,,,,,,,1813-1829 (Daane's trading dates at this address),Printed in: Rotterdam,,paper,,,woodcut; letterpress,Height: 464 millimetres; Width: 361 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Title along bottom, descriptions of illustrations beneath the compartments; on the paddle of the steamer in the main illustration ""ROTTERDAM/ EN/ D ORDT""; in lower right corner ""Te Rotterdam, bij A> DAANE, Az., Boekdrukker eu/ Boekverkooper, aan de Valken-Brug"".","Gejus van Diggele provided the following information in March 2015:
""Game players make a trip by steam boat from Rotterdam to Dordrecht (Dordt) however it has to be the opposite direction since the Old Main Gate (De Oude Hooft Poort) on 60 was located in Rotterdam. It was demolished in 1856. On 26 we pass the town of IJsselmonde (Yselmonde) and on 42 Dordrecht (Dordt).
Since the invention of the steam engine and the first successful commercial use in 1807 it became a popular theme for games. The first steam boat company in The Netherlands, founded in 1823, was a commercial failure. Three years later, in 1826, the Amsterdam Steamboat Company opened a service between Amsterdam and Zaandam. This successful enterprise explains why  at least ten different race games were inspired on the popularity of the steamboat in Holland.
Your game had an Amsterdam version as well. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection includes a printed sheet with rules of Het Stoomboots Spel based on the service between Amsterdam and Zaandam. This game was woodcut by Aron Hijman Binger and published by the well known Amsterdam Hendrik Moolenyzer who produced several games between 1883 and 1842.""
The present Rotterdam game is probably later than the Amsterdam version.",,Not on display,,,boat/ship,,Associated with: Rotterdam;  Associated with: Dordrecht (?),,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1894,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1894,0405.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_21/1f206469_89e5_4431_88a6_a3dc015bfdd3/preview_01324594_001.jpg,print; popular print; game-board,"No: 2012,7020.35",Belagerungs-Spiel. (Object),,,"Cross-shaped game-board for cutting out, with nine numbered fields at the top adjacent to unnumbered fields; four battle scenes in the corners: at top left cavalry charge, at top right soldiers firing cannons at a town; border of a line; No.1454 from a series. 
Stencil-printed lithograph, with additional hand-colouring",Printed by: C Burckardt;  Published by: C Burckardt,,,,,,,1850-1899,Published in: Wissembourg,,paper,,,lithograph; stencil printing; hand-coloured,"Height: 430 millimetres sheet ; Width: 343 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Top fields numbered; numbered above border at right 'No. 1454.' and lettered below lower border with the title, rules of the game, 'Deponirt', and publication detail: 'Druck u. Verlag v. C. Burckardt's Nachf. Weissenburg (Elsass.)'",Published in the period when Elsass was part of Germany.,,Not on display,,,battle; equestrian; arms/armour,,,,,Purchased from: Dietrich Hecht,,,,2012,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2012,7020.35",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/14_12/16ae009d_0bec_4220_b60a_a3c400d1adc3/preview_00856794_001.jpg,print; playing-card; game-board,"No: 1847,0306.104",Le Jeu des Fortifications (Object),,,"A board game comprising an uncut sheet of 52 playing-cards in which are represented and explained the details of military fortification; with an extra double card giving the ground plan of a 'Place Complète', and a dedication by J. Mariette 'A l'Illustre Jeunesse élevée dans le collége de Louis Le Grand'. At the top of the sheet are the title and rules of the game, on the left side a 'table alphabétique'. The value of each piece is indicated by a miniature card in the upper right corner. After 1691
Hand-coloured etching",After: Gilles de la Boissière;  Published by: Jean Mariette,,,,,,,1691 (after),Published in: Paris (France),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 85 millimetres individual card ; Height: 553 millimetres sheet ; Width: 55 millimetres individual card ; Width: 740 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: At the lower right corner 'A Paris, chez J. Mariette, rue St. Jacques aux Colonnes d'Hercules, avec Privilége du Roy.' At the bottom left 'Inventé et dessiné pars Gilles de la Boissière, ingénieur ordinaire du Roy.'
The title explains the function of the game: 'LE JEU DES FORTIFICATIONS. Dans lequel les differents ouvrages qui servent a la defense des places et des Camps sont exactement dessinés selon la plus nouvelle maniere avec toutes leurs definitions et une explication courte et facile des termes qui sont en usage dans cet Art.' Throughout the print are instructions for its use: They begin 'Ce Jeu souffre toutes les differentes espece de jeu qui se jouent avec les Cartes ordinaires…'","Designed by the royal engineer Gilles de la Boissière and dedicated to the local, noble students of the Jesuit Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, the 'Game of Fortifications' teaches specialized military knowledge about the planning, construction and function of fortifications. The sheet could be cut down to form a deck of playing cards or played as a board game with subject-specific rules. These include having to pay a penalty when landing on triangular or square-shaped fortifications, which are deemed 'areas of poor defence' (spaces 10 & 11). Players are then allowed to move to the pentagonal fortification on square 12, judged the ideal structure to repel attacks.
The dating of this version of the game is based on the fact that Jean Mariette inherited his fathers shop at the Colonnes d' Hercules, Paris,  in 1691. It is only after this date that he began publishing material under his own name. The game survives in five different editions. These were published in Paris by Jean Mariette, Daumont and Crépy, and N. JB du Poilly, in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortimer and in London by John Lenthall. A later copy of the game with German inscriptions was published in Amsterdam by Peter Schenk and in Augsburg by Johann Ulrich Stapf. Impressions of the editions published by Mariette, Daumont and Crépy, Schenk and Stapf are in the collection of the British Museum.
It is possible that Boissière also etched the sheet.
Naomi Lebens",Willshire 1876 / A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and other Cards in the British Museum,Not on display,2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play,,,"Associated with: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre",Associated with: Paris,,,Purchased from: J H Rodd,,,,1847,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1847,0306.104",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/0813633f_56de_4846_a585_a3bb005b9983/preview_00304378_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.39",Il Nuovo et Piacevole Giuoco del Biribisse (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments of objects, animals and characters from 1 to 42 in six rows of seven in a spiral, beneath which instructions on how to play the game. At the bottom, in three rows of fourteen, smaller numbered versions of the pictures in the compartments in the same order
Etching",Published by: Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi,,,,,,,1642-1691,Published in: Rome (city),,paper,,,etching,"Height: 470 millimetres sheet ; Width: 380 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Inscribed with four and a half lines of instruction, and at lower right ""In Roma con licentia de Superiori"" and ""Si stampano apreßo Gio. Iacomo Roßi""","This is a late (19thc) impression, blind-stamped 'Regia calcographia di Roma'",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.39",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/b70f83dc_dcc8_4afc_988d_a3da009a4db6/preview_01136065_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.4",Il nuovo gioco del tira e paga (Object),,,"Game board with eleven scenes showing different persons pulling or paying, each numbered and with explanation
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,"Height: 303 millimetres; Width: 411 millimetres plate-mark ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper right in pen 'IV'
Titled at the top, followed by the rules of the game in two lines; signed 'G M' on a bale in the square numbered 9.
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","For comment, see 1893,0331.1
For other impressions, see 1893,0331.30 and 1853,0612.457*","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.4",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/1c8671e8_0b20_4e80_bb5e_a3bb005ff553/preview_00305594_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.114",L'Histoire Romaine depuis la fondation de Rome jusqu'a Constantin (Object),,,"Game board with numbered  compartments from 1 to 56, each detailing events in the history of Rome from its foundation to the reign of Constantine arranged around a central panel, in which are detailed the rules.  1773
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Jean Baptiste Crépy,,,,,,,1773,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 524 millimetres approx ; Width: 723 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the central panel, the title and various instructions for playing the game and at the bottom ""A Paris, chez Crepy, Rue St. Jacques, près la Rue de la Parcheminerie à St. Pierre. 1773""",,,Not on display,,,ancient history,,Associated with: Rome,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.114",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.121",Wallis's New Game of Universal History and Chronology (Object),,,"Game-board with 137 circular compartments arranged in a spiral, each depicting an historical even or figure, from Adam and Eve to the Napoleonic Wars, with a portrait of the Regent in the centre.
Hand-coloured etching, cut into 12 secrions and pasted onto a cloth backing",Published by: John Wallis,,,,,,,1814,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 529 millimetres sheet ; Width: 521 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: The title at top; at bottom in centre ""Published May 20 1814 by John Wallis, 12 Skinner Street, Snow Hill, London""",,,Not on display,,,,"Representation of: George IV, King of the United Kingdom",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.121",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/682cac22_0043_422c_a43f_a3b600faf042/preview_00017871_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.126",The Royal Game of the British Sovereigns (Object),,,"Game-board with fifty-five compartments illustrating events in the lives of British monarchs from Egbert to William IV with rule book in slip-case both covered with embossed buckram. 1833-37
Hand-coloured lithograph backed on linen.",Published by: Edward Wallis,,,,,,,1833-1837,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,lithograph; hand-coloured,Height: 358 millimetres; Width: 595 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered in the central compartment ""Dieu et mon Droit"", with numbers in each compartment and at the bottom with publication details, ""London: Published by E. Wallis, 42, Skinner Street.""",The central compartment commemorates the Abolition of Slavery in British Dominions with William IV receiving the thanks of a freed black slave.,,Not on display,"2005-2007 Partnership UK tour, Across the Board",,slave/slavery,"Portrait of: William IV, King of the United Kingdom",,Associated Event: Abolition of Slavery Act,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.126",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/433ee3f8_a4fb_4b2e_b081_a3bb005be970/preview_00304408_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.50",Il Nuovissimo Giuoco dell' Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 90 in a spiral, in the centre are two boys, one of whom is reaching up for a hanging goose; beneath the board, the rules of the game
Hand-coloured lithograph",Print made by: R. Negri;  Published by: Luigi Medoni,,,,,,,19thC(late),Published in: Milan (city),,paper,,,lithograph; letterpress; hand-coloured,Height: 523 millimetres; Width: 386 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In lower right corner of board ""Negri R. fece."", in a panel beneath the board, the rules of the game, and along the lower margin ""Milano Vendesi da Luigi Medoni Cartolajo in Borgo di Cittadella, no. 43"".",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.50",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/2cdc6e12_46de_4655_aea6_a3b801339fb4/preview_00323167_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.119",Fortunio and his Seven Gifted Servants (Object),,,"Game-board with a path punctuated by circular compartments, some of which bear forfeits, leading through scenes from the play, including 'The Proclamation of King Alfourite', 'the disguised Fairy and Pertina', etc.  1846
Hand-coloured lithograph, backed on linen, with an embossed buckram cover with rule pamphlet inside",Published by: William Spooner;  Printed by: C Moody,,,,,,,1846,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,lithograph; hand-coloured,Height: 568 millimetres; Width: 425 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top, and a description of each scene beneath it, with publisher and printer's details at bottom centre",,,Not on display,,,mining/quarrying,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.119",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/abd73fe4_09f8_4ed8_807f_a3da009ac849/preview_01136428_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.6",Gioco dell'amata con gli amanti (Object),,,"Game board with a woman and her suitors, each position marked with a different throw of the dice. 1690
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 314 millimetres; Width: 445 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper left in pen 'VI'
Titled along the top, continuing with the rules of the game in two lines in the lower margin; signed 'Mi I E F 1690' at the bottom left.
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","For comment, see 1893,0311.6
For other impressions, see 1852,0612.480 and 1893,0331.15","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,courtship/love,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L. 534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.6",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/83e7b7a8_66bf_42d5_9585_a3da009a29f8/preview_01136049_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.2",Gioco della Cucagna (Object),,,"Game board with twenty persons distributed over three rows representing different cities in Italy, each holding a gastronomical regional speciality and wearing regional costume; probably alludes to the mythical land of Cuccagna.  1691
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1691,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,"Height: 315 millimetres; Height: 388 millimetres; Width: 443 millimetres plate-mark ; Width: 515 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper right in pen 'II'
Titled at the bottom, the rules of the game in the centre in thirteen lines. Each person titled with their gastronomical speciality. Signed and dated in lower right corner '1691 / Mitelli. I E. F.'
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","For comment, see 1893,0311.1
For another impression, see 1893,0311.19","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,food/drink,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/79f4f26a_e82d_4511_bc8f_a3ba0167c315/preview_00265706_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.456.+",Gioco nuovo da ridere e tirare e pagare (Object),,,"Game board with 20 numbered compartments arranged around a central panel, each  square containing a forfeit to be enacted by the players, comprising gestures, grimaces. etc.  1697
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1697,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 315 millimetres; Width: 455 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the central panel the title and the rules of the game and signed ""G.M. Mitelli in E.F. 1697. in Bologna""",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.456.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/7478383f_af02_4bcb_b4fb_a3b80132fe56/preview_00323052_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0725.1",The Royal Game of British Sovereigns exhibiting the most memorable events in each reign from Egbert to George III (Object),,,"Oval game-board with 53 numbered pictorial compartments arranged in a spiral, each representing an hisctorical event, with the title and rules in the centre. Kept in a paste-board slip case bearing a printed title label. 

Hand-coloured etching backed on linen.",Published by: John Wallis,,,,,,,1811 (circa ?),Published in: London (England),,paper,,,etching,Height: 468 millimetres; Width: 610 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Publishers' details on slip case, but partly obscured - 'Skinner Street' and 'J. Wallis' legible",,,Not on display,,,,"Associated with: George III, King of the United Kingdom",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0725.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_22/be0ac295_26f3_4a77_abaf_a3e1016e830e/preview_00137041_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1869,0410.2463.+",Filosofia cortesana de Alonso de Barros (Object),,,"Game board with numbered squares from 1 to 63, with in the centre ships on a 'sea of suffering'.  1588
Etching and engraving",Print made by: Mario Cartaro,,,,,,,1588,Published in: Naples (city),,paper,,,engraving; etching,Height: 531 millimetres; Width: 404 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top, numerous explanatory inscriptions in Italian and Spanish, and in lower right 'Criado del Rey Nro con su privilegio' and again 'Con privilegio di Sua Ecca per X anni nel Regno di Napoli' and 'Mario Cartaro inc Neap 1588'","The board is of the game of the goose. This game of 'Courtly Philosophy', published together with a short guide-book, was created by the minor Spanish nobleman Alonso de Barros. He casts his players into the role of ambitious courtiers seeking advancement. De Barros substitutes geese with spaces marked 'travaglio' [work] that allow players to jump to the next 'travaglio' space. Pitfalls such as 'false friendship' and 'death of the favourite' send them spiralling back down the track. The game ends at the 'palm of victory' which springs from the shore of the 'sea of suffering'.
Naomi Lebens
Alonso de Barros was a minor noble who served as an aposentador  in the court and is best known for his collection of proverbs, 'Proverbios morales', 1598. In 1587 he published the Filosofía Cortesana in Madrid, a short book describing the game and how to play it. This book is best-known now among Hispanists because it contains an introductory sonnet written by Miguel de Cervantes. A copy of this edition is in the Emmanuel College Library and was located by Edward M. Wilson in the 1960s. A second Spanish-language edition was published by Josep Cacchij in Naples in 1588. It seems likely that this gameboard would have accompanied this edition.  There is a modern facsimile version of the Filosofía cortesana, edited by Trevor J. Dadson and published in Madrid in 1987 (Information provided by Dr Rachel Schmidt. Email 20 may 2010). For this print and its broader discussion see  Fernando COLLAR DE CÁCERES, 'El tablero italiano de la Filosofía cortesana de Alonso de Barros (1588); la carrera de un hombre de corte'.  Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte. Vol 21, 2009, pp. 81-104",,Not on display,2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play,,,Associated with: Alonso de Barros,,,,Purchased from: Edward Daniell,,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca (sale Sotheby's 24-7.ii.1869); Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Madrazo",1869,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1869,0410.2463.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/d6295fa4_a4da_4e3b_8400_a3ba01682fe0/preview_00265791_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.34",Il Gioco del Blasone (Object),,,"Game board with 40 numbered compartments containing blank shields surrounded by the attributes of various members of the French court and; around the edge, didactic indications concerning heraldry and the possible components of a coat-of-arms
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1714-1718,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 379 millimetres; Width: 372 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the centre the title and a dedication ""Al illustrissimo et ecelso sig.re/ il sig. conte Lorenzo Bentivogli senatore di/ Bologna""",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,heraldry,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.34",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/a7672fb8_2427_497b_ab32_a3ba01676c73/preview_00265724_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.22",Gioco nuovo da ridere e tirare e pagare (Object),,,"Game board with 20 numbered compartments arranged around a central panel, each  square containing a forfeit to be enacted by the players, comprising gestures, grimaces. etc.  1697
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1697,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 315 millimetres; Width: 455 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the central panel the title and the rules of the game and signed ""G.M. Mitelli in E.F. 1697. in Bologna""",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.22",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/f2eb6d85_a696_40c0_a184_a3ba01679e1e/preview_00265747_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.25",Gioco della speranza (Object),,,"Game board showing a tower with a man and birds at the top and Hope in a roundel below; four other men thow up their arms below.  1699
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1699,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 311 millimetres; Width: 217 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled on the tower, continuing with the rules of the game in ten lines, and with four lines in the bottom margin that identify the four men beneath the tower; signed 'Mitelli inv e fece 1699 in Bologna' in the lower left.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.25",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/97d9afd1_59dc_428a_bcbf_a3ba0168517a/preview_00265801_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.28",Gioco nuovo di tutte l'osterie che sono in Bologna con le sue insegne e sue strade (Object),,,"Game board of the inn-signs in Bologna in sixty squares, each with the name of the inn and its sign and a number.  1712
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1712,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 321 millimetres; Width: 496 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, followed in four lines with the rules of the game; signed 'M I 1712' at the bottom left.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,hotel,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.28",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/908a7ca2_6728_4bcd_b4ed_a3ba0168362a/preview_00265793_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.31",Il nuovo gioco de li animali (Object),,,"Game board with twenty numbered positions, each showing an animal and marked with the corresponding throw of the dice
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 304 millimetres; Width: 412 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled in the centre, followed in nine lines with the rules of the game, followed by 'G M I F'",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,animal,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.31",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/3d757df6_8517_4489_a3d3_a3ba016754c1/preview_00265715_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.18",Al zuogh d'la città di Bulogna (Object),,,"Game board with the walls and gates, with the major buildings of Bologna, each marked with a different throw of the dice.  1691
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1691,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 319 millimetres; Width: 451 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled above a panel with the rules of the game in five lines; each position marked with notes on the topography; signed 'Mi I E F 1691' at the bottom right.,,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,Topographic representation of: Bologna (city),,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.18",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/98cfc002_c847_4803_b281_a3b80132aa76/preview_00322870_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.129",A New Game of Emulation (Object),,,"Circular game-board with 66 numbered pictorial compartments, some illustrating moral scenes, the last compartment showing an angel, in  a board slip-case with printed label with a scroll, bearing the title. 1804
Hand-coloured etching backed on linen.",Published by: John Harris,,,,,,,1804,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,hand-coloured; etching,Height: 571 millimetres; Width: 464 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title: ""The/ New Game of Emulation/ designed for/ The Amusement of Youth of Both Sexes/ and calculated to inspire their minds/ with an/ Abhorrance of Vice and a Love of Virtue""; at bottom ""London/ Published Dec 20th 1804/ by/ John Harris Successor to E. Newbury at the/ Juvenile Library/ Corner of St Paul's Church Yard""",,,Not on display,,,education,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.129",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/974f1709_6ce3_4c29_b140_a3bb005bde23/preview_00304405_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.35",Il Dilettevole Gioco del' Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral, in the centre two popular characters looking hungrily at a goose
Woodcut with letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,woodcut; letterpress,"Height: 470 millimetres; Width: 365 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top. In lower right corner ""Si vendeno al'Insegna/ della Colomba in Bologna""",Torn parellel to fold at r,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.35",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/01cca189_852b_4b81_9044_a3bb005caffd/preview_00304697_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.59",Il Nuovo et Piacevole Giuoco Romano (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments of objects, animals and characters from 1 to 64 in eight rows of eight. At the bottom, in four rows of sixteen, smaller numbered versions of the pictures in the compartments in the same order
Woodcut",Published by: Matteo Cadorin,,,,,,,17thC,Published in: Padua,,paper,,,woodcut; letterpress,Height: 484 millimetres approx ; Width: 348 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Beneath the larger set of squares ""In Padova per Mattio Cadorin apresso il Bo""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.59",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/3ee66811_4c08_446f_84df_a3bb005b9d6c/preview_00304379_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.36",Dilettevole Gioco dell' Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral, in the centre three people about to eat a cooked goose, being brought by a fourth
Woodcut with letterpress",Published by: Carlo Bertinazzi,,,,,,,18thC(late)-19thC(early),Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,woodcut; letterpress,"Height: 483 millimetres sheet ; Width: 359 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title attop. In lower right corner ""Si vende da Carlo/ Bertinazzi in Bologna""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.36",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/f625810e_b8bb_4424_8cc5_a3ba0167ad2a/preview_00265754_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.19",Gioco della Cucagna (Object),,,"Game board with twenty persons in distributed over three rows representing different cities in Italy, each holding a gastronomical regional speciality and wearing regional costume; probably alludes to the mythical land of Cuccagna.  1691
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1691,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 315 millimetres; Width: 440 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled at the bottom, the rules of the game in the centre in thirteen lines. Each person titled with their gastronomical speciality. Signed and dated in lower right corner ""Mitelli. E. F.""",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,food/drink,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.19",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/23b10cd7_84ab_4931_a77e_a3bb005b92e0/preview_00304376_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.33",Nuovo et Piaccevole Gioco detto il Barone (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 76, in the centre a rustic military figure carrying a flag inscribed ""Capitano di Baroni"" (after Callot, Lieure 479)
Woodcut",After: Jacques Callot,,,,,,,mid 17thc,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 487 millimetres; Width: 374 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at bottom, each compartment numbered and lettered with a description and sometimes the value assigned to that square in the game","This crude woodcut, showing clear signs of use, belongs to a small sub-set of Italian 'beggar' games. Loosely based on the Game of the Goose, most of the character spaces on the board are linked to objects or locations - e.g. landing on the hunter [cazzador] on space 14 takes you to the hare [lepre] on space 19. The key exceptions are the spaces featuring beggars [baroni], who instead allow the player to take a small amount from any money wagered on the board. The central 'Capitano di Baroni' is after the title-page of the famous series of beggar etchings by Jacques Callot.
Naomi Lebens",,Not on display,2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.33",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/dfdf6caf_8c79_4d8d_a8c9_a3bb005bd7da/preview_00304402_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.45",Gioco dell'Ocha (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 62 arranged in a spiral, in the centre an archway, numbered 63; through which a woman carrying a basket containing a goose on her head can be seen 
Woodcut",,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 455 millimetres; Width: 345 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In bottom right corner ""Chi non vol/ perder non gioc/ hi.""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.45",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/208acc40_5469_4849_a40f_a3da009aee26/preview_01136448_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.9",Gioco delle sposi e spose (Object),,,"Game board with twenty squares representing different episodes of the daily duties of women, each marked for a different throw of the dice 
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 263 millimetres; Width: 427 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper right in pen 'IX'
Titled with the rules of the game in two lines; each square with a caption; signed below the title 'Mitelli fece' at right
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","For comment, see 1893,0331.1","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,daily life,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.9",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/b96dee00_bc1e_49cc_bdb4_a3b50107602e/preview_00141683_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.482",Zugh di tutti i zugh (Object),,,"Game board with twenty-four squares each showing a different game; each is marked with a name and a throw of the dice.  1702
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1702,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 274 millimetres; Width: 392 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled in centre, and with the rules of the game in three lines along the bottom; signed 'Mi Fe' in the bottom right, and dated 1702 in the centre.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,sport/pastime,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.482",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/b4a1d915_6e41_42c0_a942_a3bb005dd546/preview_00305010_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.67",Le Jeu des François et des Espagnols pour la Paix (Object),,,"Game board with 26 compartments, each labelled with a date between 1635 and 1660 and  detailing an event in the Franco-Spanish wars, the left side of the compartment detailing the French gains and the right, those of the Spaniards; the final compartment celebrating the peace in 1660.  1660
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Antoine de Fer,,,,,,,1660,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 405 millimetres; Width: 457 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title in the centre; in top left corner ""Explication de la Figure/ du Jeu de la Paix"", followed by eleven lines of text; in top right corner ""Loix du Jeu""; followed by fouteen lines of text, and a further thirteen in the bottom right corner; in the bottom left corner ""Ordre du Jeu"", followed by eighteen lines of text and the following: "" A Paris/ Chez Antoine de Fer Marchand de taille douce, et Enlumineur/ de Cartes Geographique, demeurant en l'Isle du Palais, Sur le quay/ qui regarde la Mesgisserie, a l'aage de fer, et la Sphere Royale""",,,Not on display,,,war,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.67",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/00708e8d_2104_424a_9bc7_a3da009ae681/preview_01136445_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.11","Gioco di Madonna Bernardina Mastra si scola, così parla a suoi scolari (Object)",,,"Game board with a scene of the school-mistress with her pupils engaged in eleven different activites, each marked with for a different throw of the dice; sheet cut and pasted onto backing sheet. 1692
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1692,,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 291 millimetres; Width: 376 millimetres plate-mark ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered above in pen 'XI'
Titled along the top, and with eleven lines commenting on the figures in the scene; the rules of the game in one line along the bottom; signed 'Mitelli I E F 1692' on the stool in the bottom centre.
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","For comment, see 1893,0331.1
For other impressions, see 1852,0612.453* and 1899,0331.20","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,school,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.11",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.477",Gioco della pontica assediata da smaniosi gatti (Object),,,"Game board with a castle of mice besieged by an army of cats, each position marked with a different throw of the dice. 1690
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 285 millimetres; Width: 428 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top in five lines, continuing with the rules of the game; signed 'Mi I E F' at the top and dated '1690' at the bottom.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.477",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/7ec246c0_42c1_46f3_8c04_a3bb005fc70e/preview_00305613_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.117",Nouveau jeu historique et chronologique de la monarchie française (Object),,,"Game board with 63 numbered compartments arranged in a spiral, each containing an event from the life of a French king, an explanatory inscription and a portrait medallion with the date of his coronation, the first four kings in each corner, the rules detailed in the centre; the final compartment showing the entrance of Louis XVIII into Paris
etching",Published by: Paul André Basset,,,,,,,1814 (after),,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 475 millimetres approx ; Width: 620 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title and rules; in lower margin to l ""A Paris chez Basset, Md d'Estampes, Rue St. Jacques, No. 64"" and to r ""Déposé au Bureau des Estampes""",,,Not on display,,,,"Representation of: Pharamond, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Chlodio, King of the Salian Franks;  Representation of: Mérovée, King of the Salian Franks;  Representation of: Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks;  Representation of: Clovis I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Childebert I, King of Paris;  Representation of: Clotaire I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Childebert II, King of Austrasia;  Representation of: Childebert IV (Childebert III), King of the Franks;  Representation of: Clotaire II, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Dagobert I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Clovis II, King of Neustria and Burgundy;  Representation of: Clotaire III, King of Neustria;  Representation of: Childeric II, King of Austrasia and Neustria;  Representation of: Thierry I;  Representation of: Clovis IV, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Dagobert II, King of Austrasia;  Representation of: Chilperic II, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Thierry II, King of Austrasia and Burgundy;  Representation of: Childeric III, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Pepin the Short, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Emperor Charlemagne;  Representation of: Louis I the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks;  Representation of: Charles II the Bald, King of France;  Representation of: Louis II, King of France;  Representation of: Louis III, King of France;  Representation of: Charles III the Fat, Emperor;  Representation of: Eudes, King of Western Francia;  Representation of: Charles III the Simple, King of Western Francia and Lotharingia;  Representation of: Raoul, Duke of Burgundy and King of Western Francia;  Representation of: Louis IV, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Lothair, King of West Francia;  Representation of: Louis V, King of Western Francia (France);  Representation of: Hugues Capet, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Henri I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Philippe I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Louis VI, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Louis VII, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Philippe II (Philippe Auguste), King of France;  Representation of: Louis VIII, King of France;  Representation of: St Louis, King Louis IX of France;  Representation of: Philippe IV, King of France;  Representation of: Louis X, King of France;  Representation of: Philippe V, King of France;  Representation of: Charles IV, King of France;  Representation of: Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy;  Representation of: Jean II, King of France;  Representation of: Charles V, King of France;  Representation of: Charles VI, King of France;  Representation of: Charles VII, King of France;  Representation of: Louis XI, King of France;  Representation of: Charles VIII the Affable, King of France;  Representation of: Louis XII, King of France;  Representation of: François I, King of France;  Representation of: Henri II, King of France;  Representation of: François II, King of France;  Representation of: Charles IX, King of France;  Representation of: Henri III, King of France;  Representation of: Henri IV, King of France and Navarre;  Representation of: Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre;  Representation of: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre;  Representation of: Louis XV, King of France and Navarre",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.117",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/497112e9_4554_489a_a65e_a3b501073036/preview_00141715_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.488",Il nobilissimo et dilettevole giuoco del gambaro (Object),,,"Game board with a path leading through a landscape, marked with 51 numbered divisions, each marked with a different vice that has to be overcome
Etching",Attributed to: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli;  Attributed to: Francesco Maria Francia,,,,,,,1675-1718,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 332 millimetres; Width: 462 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, followed by four lines giving the rules of the game",The attribution to Mitelli is doubted by Bertarelli. He suggests that the author might be F.M.Francia.,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.488",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/fe5fc094_5582_4377_8b29_a3b5010764f9/preview_00141685_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.489",Gioco nuovo di tutte l'osterie che sono in Bologna con le sue insegne e sue strade (Object),,,"Game board of the inn-signs in Bologna in sixty squares, each with the name of the inn and its sign and a number.  1712
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1712,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 319 millimetres; Width: 485 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, followed in four lines with the rules of the game; signed 'M I 1712' at the bottom left.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,hotel,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.489",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/7b9429da_a7b8_4906_bfe6_a3b8012c9686/preview_00321364_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,1015.9",Die Steckenpferd Galloppade (Object),,,"Game-board with 60 numbered compartments arranged in a spiral, several compartments show various scenes, and a number of compartments show a hobby horse; the central compartment shows Minerva pointing at a folly (?), figures in each corner: top left, a child on a hobby horse waving a sword, top right an old man on a hobby horse also waving a sword, bottom right, a man with a searchlight, bottom left, a fool.  Accompanied by a letterpress rule sheet in French and German and kept in a board slip-case bearing a printed label
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Johann Benedikt Wunder (?),,,,,,,19thC,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured; letterpress,"Height: 283 millimetres approx ; Width: 278 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: in lower left of central compartment ""J B Wunder del et f""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,1015.9",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/c0a7c684_d08b_4f9a_ac80_a3bb005f021c/preview_00305331_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.108",Tableau cronologique de l'histoire universelle en forme de jeu (Object),,,"Game board with compartments arranged in a spiral, each containing a historical event from Creation, to the ascension of Louis XV; in the central panel, compartments detailing all the great men of history, from Methuselah to Philippe d'Orleans.  1767
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Jean Baptiste Crépy,,,,,,,1767,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 440 millimetres approx ; Width: 567 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title in a cartouche in the central panel, with the rules either side, and details of the publisher ""Se vend/ a Paris chez /Crépy, rue St/ Jacques devant/ la rue de Pla/ tre""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.108",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/384a8838_6734_498d_babb_a3b501073c68/preview_00141670_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.455.+",Il gioco della verità (Object),,,"Game board with six scenes, each of which corresponds to a different throw of a die; five show fashionable wastrels, the sixth a hard-working family (which is the winning throw). 1688
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1688,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 300 millimetres; Width: 403 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top in eight lines, continuing with the rules of the game; signed in lower right 'Mittelli I e F 1688'",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.455.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/fbeec634_d4d6_4395_8d0a_a3b501074444/preview_00141673_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.454.+",Gioco delle sposi e spose (Object),,,"Game board with twenty squares representing different episodes of the decline of a married couple, from wedding to penury, each marked with for a different throw of the dice.  1691
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1691,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 318 millimetres; Width: 453 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled in a central panel with the rules of the game in seven lines; each square with a caption; signed 'Mi I E F 1691' at the bottom right.,,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,marriage/wedding,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.454.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/f7d9f854_6f0f_4b5e_9c0b_a3b501074f4f/preview_00141677_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.461.+",Gioco del Re di Persia dedicato a suoi parciali (Object),,,"Game board with twenty squares showing the deeds of the King of Persia, each square marked for a different throw of the dice.  1695
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1695,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 264 millimetres; Width: 407 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled in the centre, continued with the rules of the game in four lines, and with descriptions by each of the squares; signed 'Giuseppe M Mitelli in e fece 1695' in the centre.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.461.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/81468e40_8161_4802_93f1_a3bb005de9c0/preview_00305015_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.71",Grand Jeu de l'histoire ancienne de la Grèce (Object),,,"Game board with numbered compartments from 1 to 63 arranged in a spiral, each containing an image of an event in Greek history, with a description underneath,; more scenes in each corner; the rules detailed in the centre
Etching with letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous;  Published by: Paul André Basset,,,,,,,1815-1819 (?),,,paper,,,etching; letterpress,"Height: 465 millimetres; Width: 620 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along top of central panel and the rules; each compartment bears a description of its contents beneath; in bottom left ""A Paris chez Basset, Rue St. Jacques, No. 64' and to right ""Déposé au Bureau des Estampes""",,,Not on display,,,,,Associated with: Greece,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.71",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/c15d179e_8652_404d_b2a8_a3bb005df565/preview_00305018_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.73",Le Nouveau Jeu de la marine imperiale (Object),,,"Game board with 63 numbered compartments, each containing a nautical term, sometimes with an illustration, arranged in a spiral, around a central panel, in which are detailed the rules
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1804-1814,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 340 millimetres; Width: 406 millimetres approx ",Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: The rules and title in two columns in the centre,,,Not on display,,,naval,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.73",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/116da67c_415e_4da3_a911_a3b8012c984c/preview_00321365_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,1015.5",Der Kapellmeister (Object),,,"Game-board with 16 numbered compartments, arranged in a 16-sided shape, each alternate compartment showing a musician; in the centre, a singer, holding a score. Accompanied by a letterpress rule sheet in French and German
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,19thC,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured; letterpress,"Height: 283 millimetres approx ; Width: 278 millimetres approx ",,,,Not on display,,,music,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,1015.5",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/50ac25b9_be35_433a_aed2_a3bb005c7d63/preview_00304678_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.56",Il  novo e piacevole gioco del pela il chiu (Object),,,"Game board with four concentric ovals containing squares with dice, human figures or owls; in the centre a crowned owl atop a crown resting on three dice showing sixes.  
Woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 505 millimetres; Width: 358 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and in centre beneath the owl ""Tira/ Honoran/ za/  da Tutti"". In the two top corners are the rules of the game.","(Edited text from Michael Bury, 'The Print in Italy 1550-1620', BM 2001, cat.103.)
The name of the game means 'pluck the owl'. It involved throwing three dice, identifying the place that corresponded to the throw on either the inner or the outer oval and then carrying out the written instructions. 'T' means tira that is the instruction to take the number of quattrini ('Q') indicated; 'P' means paga that is the instruction to pay out the number of quattrini indicated. A throw of three sixes takes all.  
The idea will have been to buy one of these prints and stick it down onto a hard surface of some kind in order to form a game-board. The game is listed in the Vaccari stocklist of 1614 as 'Il giuco del pela Chiù', along with a small group of other games, including the famous 'Oca' (Ehrle, 1908, p.62). It also appears in the 1648 De Rossi inventory documenting the division of the inheritance from Giuseppe de Rossi the elder (Consagra, 1993, p.512). It evidently remained popular, for there were boards still being produced in the eighteenth century [of which this is one].",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.56",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/9aa4d219_08d8_4c9f_9ea7_a3bb005cd3f7/preview_00304709_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.60",,,,"Game board with thirty-six numbered squares containing animals, birds, fruits, men, women and flowers, each row containing one of each.  On either side of this grid, compartments containing the words 'paro' and disparo' and 'fuori' and 'dentro'
Etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,etching; letterpress,Height: 453 millimetres; Width: 577 millimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.60",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/8b137581_51a9_4a0d_96ca_a3bb005df8d5/preview_00305019_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.74",Jeu des guerriers Français (Object),,,"Game board with 63 numbered pictorial compartments, each containing a scene from the Napoleonic wars or military life in general, arranged in a spiral, around a central panel, in which are detailed the rules
Etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1809-1814,,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 440 millimetres; Width: 562 millimetres approx ",Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: The rules and title in the centre,,,Not on display,,,military,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.74",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/a122e195_b47b_4b8d_be90_a3bb005cf50a/preview_00304670_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.54",,,,"Game board for the Game of the Goose with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral, in the centre is a figure in a hat leading a goose
woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 380 millimetres; Width: 290 millimetres,,Illegible letterpress (?) inscription in the centre,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.54",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/7611b915_cff6_42e5_8751_a3bb005ba55b/preview_00304381_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.37",,,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 49 in a spiral, in the centre a fishing party, crustaceans in the corners of the board and on some of the squares.
Woodcut with letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut; letterpress,"Height: 425 millimetres printed area ; Width: 332 millimetres sheet ",,,,Not on display,,,fisherman/fishing,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.37",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/d4387671_5a1b_4c4b_bd4e_a3bb005ca328/preview_00304692_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.58",Nuovo Giuoco del Biribissi (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments of objects, animals and characters from 1 to 42 in six rows of seven, beneath which instructions in letterpresson how to play the game. At the bottom, in three rows of fourteen, smaller numbered versions of the pictures in the compartments in the same order
Woodcut with letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,19thC (?),,,paper,,,woodcut; letterpress,Height: 480 millimetres approx ; Width: 311 millimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.58",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/92b22602_c4f0_4680_90f3_a3bb005c8d20/preview_00304739_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.64",Giuoco dell'amore e dell'imeneo (Object),,,"Game board with 80 numbered compartments arranged in a spiral representing the stages a couple go through before arriving at the altar, with the game's instructions in the middle",Print made by: G Barchetta;  Published by: G Gussoni,,,,,,,19thC(late),,,paper,,,lithograph; letterpress,Height: 402 millimetres; Width: 504 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Along bottom margin ""Gio. Gussoni Editore, Milano"" and signed on the stone ""G Barchetta""",,,Not on display,,,marriage/wedding,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.64",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/5c0df725_5ee2_4b10_a156_a3bb005c99da/preview_00304688_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.57",Il  novo e piacevole gioco del pela il chiu (Object),,,"Game board with four concentric ovals containing squares with dice, human figures or owls; in the centre a crowned owl atop a crown resting on three dice showing sixes.  
Woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 414 millimetres; Width: 335 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top; in centre beneath the owl ""Tira/ Honoranza/ Tutti"". Along the bottom margin in letterpress ""Si vende nella Libreria Gentili Via Tor Sanguigna N. 11 e 13""","(Edited text from Michael Bury, 'The Print in Italy 1550-1620', BM 2001, cat.103.)
The name of the game means 'pluck the owl'. It involved throwing three dice, identifying the place that corresponded to the throw on either the inner or the outer oval and then carrying out the written instructions. 'T' means tira that is the instruction to take the number of quattrini ('Q') indicated; 'P' means paga that is the instruction to pay out the number of quattrini indicated. A throw of three sixes takes all.  
The idea will have been to buy one of these prints and stick it down onto a hard surface of some kind in order to form a game-board. The game is listed in the Vaccari stocklist of 1614 as 'Il giuco del pela Chiù', along with a small group of other games, including the famous 'Oca' (Ehrle, 1908, p.62). It also appears in the 1648 De Rossi inventory documenting the division of the inheritance from Giuseppe de Rossi the elder (Consagra, 1993, p.512). It evidently remained popular, for there were boards still being produced in the eighteenth century [of which this is one].
This is a late impression from an old block",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.57",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/d5115eed_a4b8_4e2e_81ef_a3bb005c8451/preview_00304735_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.102",Il  novo e piacevole gioco del pela il chiu (Object),,,"Game board with four concentric ovals containing squares with dice, human figures or owls; in the centre a crowned owl atop a crown resting on three dice showing sixes.  
Woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 467 millimetres; Width: 350 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and in centre beneath the owl ""Tira/ Honora/nza/  Tutti"". In the corners are the rules of the game. The publisher's name in lower right corner ""In Lucca per li Marescandolli""","(Edited text from Michael Bury, 'The Print in Italy 1550-1620', BM 2001, cat.103.)
The name of the game means 'pluck the owl'. It involved throwing three dice, identifying the place that corresponded to the throw on either the inner or the outer oval and then carrying out the written instructions. 'T' means tira that is the instruction to take the number of quattrini ('Q') indicated; 'P' means paga that is the instruction to pay out the number of quattrini indicated. A throw of three sixes takes all.  
The idea will have been to buy one of these prints and stick it down onto a hard surface of some kind in order to form a game-board. The game is listed in the Vaccari stocklist of 1614 as 'Il giuco del pela Chiù', along with a small group of other games, including the famous 'Oca' (Ehrle, 1908, p.62). It also appears in the 1648 De Rossi inventory documenting the division of the inheritance from Giuseppe de Rossi the elder (Consagra, 1993, p.512). It evidently remained popular, for there were boards still being produced in the eighteenth century [of which this is one printed by the Tipografia Marescandoli, Lucca].",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.102",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/34437822_2af5_4e8e_bfb7_a3bb005b9638/preview_00304377_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.38",Gioco dell' Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 62 in a spiral, in the centre nobles seated around a table playing the same game, with musicians behind
Woodcut with letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,17thC(late),,,paper,,,woodcut; letterpress,"Height: 342 millimetres sheet ; Width: 460 millimetres sheet ",Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at left side,This is a late (19thc) impression,,Not on display,,,gambling/gaming; music,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.38",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_22/c2270041_c3d5_44a8_9080_a3e1016e7650/preview_00137035_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1869,0410.2462.+",Scacchiero dove presto simpara di giocare a scacchi (Object),,,"Chess board in the centre with the rules of chess along the top, the chess pieces along the bottom, and two strips with soldiers duelling along the sides.  1590s
Engraving",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1590s,,,paper,,,engraving,Height: 505 millimetres; Width: 376 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Edward Daniell,,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca (sale Sotheby's 24-7.ii.1869); Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Madrazo",1869,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1869,0410.2462.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/6396e4a3_593c_4ea3_8fb5_a3bb005be216/preview_00304406_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.51",Il Novo et Piacevol Giuoco dell' Occha (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral, in the centre the rules of the game
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 467 millimetres; Width: 365 millimetres sheet ",,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.51",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/1f761d97_a8ed_41dc_b888_a3bb005e1fcf/preview_00305143_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.90",Le Prix de Mythologie ou la Mythologie en jeu d'oie (Object),,,"Game board with 63 numbered pictorial compartments, each depicting a mythological character, arranged in a spiral around a central compartment, in which are detailed the rules; brief summaries in verse of the characters in colums to left and to right.
Etching with letterpress",Published by: Demonville,,,,,,,1804 (after),,,paper,,,etching; letterpress,Height: 410 millimetres; Width: 540 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: The title at top; in the central panel ""Regles du Jeu de l'Oie"" with the rules beneath; along bottom margin ""à Paris Chez Demonville Imprimeur Libraire, Rue Christine, No.2"" and at bottom left ""Déposé à la Bibliothèque Impériale""",,,Not on display,,,mythical figure/creature; classical mythology,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.90",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/8c10e019_e60d_4e09_a559_a3bb005fbf61/preview_00305610_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.118",Les Délassemens des éléves de Mars ou Nouveau jeu militaire (Object),,,"Game board with 63 numbered compartments arranged in a spiral, each containing a military term or an aspect of military life, some illustrated; the final compartment showing the king on his throne meeting the young officers; the rules and a dedication in the centre; military trophies in the bottom two corners, Mars in the top left corner and Bellona in the top r.
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Louis Crépy;  Print made by: Claude Roussel,,,,,,,1709-1727,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 432 millimetres approx ; Width: 547 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title at top of central panel, followed with ""Pour apprendre à la Jeune Noblesse les principaux termes de la Guerre"" and the rules; in bottom right corner ""a Paris chez Crepy rue S. Jacques à S. Pierre pres la rue de la parcheminerie""; after the final compartment, a dedication and the Conti coat of arms.",,,Not on display,,,military; classical mythology; classical deity,"Associated with: Louis Armand II de Bourbon, prince de Conti;  Representation of: Bellona;  Representation of: Ares/Mars",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.118",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/2454870b_ffb0_4d95_bf85_a3b8012e1c48/preview_00321630_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,1015.4",Der Tribut oder Dan Sultanspiel (Object),,,"Game-board with 9 compartments, numbered from 3 - 11, in 3 rows of 3, each compartment showing a character in Turkish costume, the central square showing the seraglio; each character labelled in French and German.  Accompannied by a letterpress rule sheet in French and German
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,19thC,Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured; letterpress,"Height: 317 millimetres sheet ; Width: 276 millimetres sheet ",,,,Not on display,,,turquerie,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,1015.4",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/7345b170_3411_4f5a_ab18_a3bb005e32f3/preview_00305149_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.94",Le Jeu Royal de l'Oie (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral; in the centre, the final compartment being a goose going through an archway; the rules detailed in the centre.
Hand-coloured woodcut with letterpress",Published by: Jean Baptiste Letourmy,,,,,,,1774-1800,Published in: Orléans (France),,paper,,,woodcut; hand-coloured; letterpress,Height: 397 millimetres; Width: 456 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the centre, the rules in 25 lines in letterpress, in the bottom margin ""A Orleans, chez LETOURMY, place duMartroi""",,Garnier 1990-96 / L'Imagerie populaire française,Not on display,"2017-18 Sept-Jan, BM, G90, The Business of Prints",,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.94",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/a173ef21_1a0f_40d5_9e5d_a3bb005a6fee/preview_00304125_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.81",Affen Spiel (Object),,,"Game-board in an octagonal shape with compartments numbered from 1 to 63 arranged in a spiral, some bearing pictures of monkeys; in each corner, monkeys wearing clothes; in the centre,  six monkeys playing musical instruments, the rules at bottom
Hand-coloured lithograph",Published by: Johann Raab,,,,,,,19thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,lithograph; hand-coloured,"Height: 329 millimetres approx ; Width: 274 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title in the centre and the rules in 7 lines beneath; along the bottom to right ""Nürnberg bei Joh. Raab""",,,Not on display,,,singerie,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.81",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/b4d5083d_011b_4560_99c6_a3bb005aa887/preview_00304146_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.6",,,,"First World War war board-game with routes from Petrograd, London, Paris and Brussels to Berlin, surrounded by images including a mounted German soldier hit by a cannon ball, an ""Armoured Motor-Car"", and early aeroplanes; game-board, no dice or pieces. 1914-18
Colour lithograph in yellow, blue, red and black",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1914-1918,,,paper; cardboard,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 477 millimetres; Width: 365 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with rules, place names and other game information","St Petersburg was known as Petrograd between 1914 and 1924. The game probably dates from before 1916 when tanks were first used, replacing the armoured motor car.",,Not on display,,,war,,,Associated Event: Second World War,,Purchased from: Exmoor Antiques,Funded by: British Museum Friends (Board Games Running Fund),,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.6",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/6d1ad55d_9942_4a09_9b12_a3bb005a880f/preview_00304133_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.10",The Ranks to Field Marshal (Object),,,"Board-game for The Ranks to Field Marshal game connected with the First World War with portraits of George V and Field Marshals French and Kitchener; game-board, no rules, dice or pieces.  c.1914-1918
Process print in green, yellow, red and black",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1914-1918,Published in: British Isles,,paper; cardboard,,,photomechanical print; colour,Height: 428 millimetres; Width: 292 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title and various army ranks and other game information, and publication information, ""British Manufacture""",,,Not on display,,,war,"Portrait of: George V, King of the United Kingdom;  Portrait of: Field Marshal John French, 1st Earl of Ypres;  Portrait of: Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum",,Associated Event: First World War,,Donated by: Anonymous,,,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.10",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/a9dd8189_9c64_47cc_93c8_a3bb005a9c06/preview_00304142_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.5",The Way to Berlin (Object),,,"First World War war board-game cut from the 'Children's Magazine'; game-board, no dice or pieces. 1914 
Process print in blue and red pasted onto cardboard",Published by: Amalgamated Press,,,,,,,1914,Published in: British Isles,,paper; cardboard,,,photomechanical print; colour,Height: 240 millimetres; Width: 377 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title followed by ""Children's Magazine War Game/Given free with each copy of the Children's Magazine for December. The three players represent the Armies of Freedom, and the object is to be first in the capital of the Prussian Despot."" and with other text including place names indicating various routes to Berlin
Verso: note of instructions and rules cut from magazine, and title in a child's hand","After 1914 the magazine became ""My Children's Magazine"" (information from Alfred Wallace, November 2008)",,Not on display,,,war,,,Associated Event: First World War,,Purchased from: Exmoor Antiques,Funded by: British Museum Friends (Board Games Running Fund),,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.5",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/2945cc1b_e21c_4ea9_80cb_a3bb005ab32f/preview_00304149_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.8",,,,"Second World War German invasion of Britain race board-game (""Wir fahren gegen Engeland"", ""Ein neues Kriegspiel von U-Booten und Flieger""/ We are going to fight against England. A new war game with submarines and air planes); game-board no rules, dice or pieces. 1940
Colour lithograph in blue, yellow, black and red",After: Fritz Westenberger;  Published by: Verlag Josef Scholz,,,,,,,1940,Published in: Germany,,paper; cardboard,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 520 millimetres; Width: 146 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with various place names and illustrator's name: "" F Westenberger"" lower left","Gejus van Diggele (email Dec 2021): This game board is part of the game ""Wir fahren gegen Engeland"", ""Ein neues Kriegspiel von U-Booten und Flieger"" (We are going to fight against England. A new war game with submarines and air planes) in early 1940 produced by Verlag Joseph Scholz in Mainz, Germany. F. Westenberger is not the publisher but the illustrator. 
It is a so called race game, to be played with dice. The title refers to the then popular German war march song. While England was still preparing for an attack from Germany, the Blitz Krieg could already be played in this game. From Bremen (Deutsche Bocht) the players could choose from two routes, for U-boats and aircraft. The box contains cards with specifications of English warships. The game board shows English industrial areas, churches and defense points. The rules recommands it as ""Ein herrliches Spiel für unsere Jugend!"" (A wonderful game for our youth!). Yet it is not a government propaganda game but a commercially published product by a large game manufacturer.",,Not on display,,,war,,,Associated Event: Second World War,,Donated by: Petra Gesche,,,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.8",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/57a21dd4_38f3_4580_8e11_a3bb005a92fe/preview_00304138_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.15",Jagd auf Kohlenklau (Object),,,"Boardgame for the didactic race game; gameboard, rules, no dice or pieces.  1943-44.
Colour lithograph in red and black",Printed by: Lepthian-Schiffers;  Published by: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hohnhausen,,,,,,,1943-1944,Published in: Germany,,paper,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 296 millimetres; Width: 419 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title and rules and manufacturer's name, "" Lepthien-Schiffers"" followed by a trademark","A Dutch collector, Gejus van Diggele, provided the following information in May 2016 (email):  
This game of propaganda was commissioned by the German government to encourage people to save raw materials for the war effort.   'Jagd auf Kohlenklau' is printed by Leptien-Schiffers for Werbeagentur (Advertising Agency) ""Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hohnhausen"" in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1943-1944, with a print run of 5 million.  On the blue squares a boy is saving energy, on the red squares we see 'Kohlenklau' and examples of wasting energy.  The game was distributed free as part of a large  campaign with the same slogan.  A 'Kohlenklau' quartet game was also produced, probably for sale. One of the quartet cards says ""Ohne Kohlen kann kein Krieg geführt werden"" ('without coal war is impossible'). Unusually for Nazi propaganda, the 'Kohlenklau' character does not have a Jewish appearance; at the time most Germans suffered food shortages, but 'Kohlenklau' clearly is overweight. At this period paper and ink were scarce; but the game is well printed in bright colours on board of reasonable quality. The gameboard was distributed folded, in an envelope, without dice or pieces. The rules are printed on the game. The game is not especially rare; it does not show swastikas or other nazi symbols, so probably many German families kept it to play after the war.",,Not on display,"2019, 18 Apr-29 Sep, BM, Gallery 69a, Playing with Money: Currency and Games",,political propaganda,,,,,Donated by: Petra Gesche,,,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.15",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 1989,0602,0.1",,,,Large woodblock-printed board game in Shijo style.,Print artist: Go Shun 呉春,,,,,,Edo Period,1775-1811,Made in: Japan,,paper,,,woodblock,,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Robert G Sawers,,,,1989,,,Asia,,"1989,0602,0.1",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.7",The Ivory Castle Game (Object),,,"Board-game for the Ivory Castle Game, a commercial advertisement for protection of children's teeth.  c.1920
Colour lithograph in red, green, yellow, blue and black",Published by: D & W Gibbs Ltd,,,,,,,1920s,Published in: British Isles,,paper; pasteboard,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 441 millimetres; Width: 341 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered on the front, ""Hang this picture up/ The Ivory Castle copyright/ D&W Gibbs, Ltd./ The Manufacturers of the Famous Gibbs Dentifrice, Wapping, London, E.1"", and other lettering
inside with numbers and other game information with on verso","A highly ephemeral publication of some rarity.  A visitor to a Townley Group Fund-Raising Evening was moved almost to tears at the sight of this board, having played it with his governess many decades before (information from Irving Finkel).",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Anonymous,,,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.7",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.2",,,,"Snakes and Ladders board.  1920s
Printed in colours with reverse in red",Published by: J W Spear and Sons,,,,,,,1920-1829,,,paper; cardboard,,,photomechanical print,Height: 263 millimetres open ; Width: 263 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with numbers on squares and in lower left hand corner, ""Spear's Games"".",A much used and repaired board,,Not on display,"2005-2007 Partnership UK tour, Across the Board",,,,,,,Donated by: Jane Kennedy,,,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/0701496f_f913_41cc_9552_a3b501076260/preview_00141684_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.460.+",Signora Gola tira tutt (Object),,,"Game board showing a table with a feast at which men and women are gorging themselves; each person is marked with a name and a throw of the dice.  1699
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1699,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 255 millimetres; Width: 436 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled at top centre, and with the rules of the game in five lines along the table cloth; signed 'Mitelli I F 1699 Bolog' in the bottom right.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,eating/drinking,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.460.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/49712016_99ec_4a84_9a05_a3bb005e4338/preview_00305153_001.jpg,print; game-board; playing-card,"No: 1893,0331.88.1-15",,,,"A set of fifteen plates; each subdivided into twelve compartments, each compartment containing figures from classical mythology. Nine of the sheets are labelled from 1 to 9, followed by ""1.ere partie"" the other six are labelled from 1 to 6, followed by ""II.ere partie""; each compartment is numbered in the top right corner
Etchings",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC(early) (?),Printed in: Paris (France),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 185 millimetres each sheet, printed area ; Width: 221 millimetres each sheet, printed area ",,These games are possibly designed to be cut out into separate cards,,Not on display,,,classical mythology; classical deity,Representation of: Kronos/Saturn;  Representation of: Olympian Gods;  Representation of: Janus;  Representation of: Prometheus;  Representation of: Leda;  Representation of: Europa;  Representation of: Callisto;  Representation of: Semele;  Representation of: Ganymede;  Representation of: Hebe;  Representation of: Argus;  Representation of: Arachne;  Representation of: Daphne;  Representation of: Niobids;  Representation of: Niobe;  Representation of: Actaeon;  Representation of: Muses;  Representation of: Perseus;  Representation of: Andromeda;  Representation of: Medusa;  Representation of: Fates;  Representation of: Theseus;  Representation of: Ariadne;  Representation of: Aegeus;  Representation of: Jason;  Representation of: Medea;  Representation of: Herakles/Hercules;  Representation of: Deianeira;  Representation of: Nessos;  Representation of: Dioskouroi/Dioscuri;  Representation of: Orpheus;  Representation of: Eurydice;  Representation of: Oedipus;  Representation of: Narcissus;  Representation of: Paris;  Representation of: Iphigeneia;  Representation of: Odysseus/Ulysses;  Representation of: Circe;  Representation of: Aeneas;  Representation of: Anchises;  Representation of: Ascanius;  Representation of: Dido;  Representation of: Icarus;  Representation of: Atalanta;  Representation of: Hippomenes,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.88.1-15",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/45ab51ba_3708_4b84_b9dc_a3b80132b5ff/preview_00322929_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.128",The Swan of Elegance: A New Game Designed for the Instruction and Amuseument of Youth (Object),,,"Game-board in the shape of a swan with 31 numbered pictorial compartments, each showing a child engaged in a moral or an immoral deed, explained in the rule book with four lines of verse for each compartment Medaliions at each corner, representing Apollo, Minerva, Wisdom and Genius.. Acompanied by a 16 page rule booklet, which also lists other games sold by John Harris, and kept in a board slip-case bearing a printed label.  1814

Hand-coloured etching backed on linen.",Published by: John Harris,,,,,,,1814,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 588 millimetres; Width: 469 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and publication details at bottom,,,Not on display,,,education,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.128",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/aa39d37e_3aca_428f_ad7b_a3da009a1d9c/preview_01136043_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.1",Gioco della fortuna e di disgratia (Object),,,"Game board with twenty-two ovals, each with a different person and his or her fortune or misfortune, each marked with the corresponding throw of the dice; female personification of Fortune standing on a wheel at centre
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,"Height: 298 millimetres; Height: 388 millimetres; Width: 407 millimetres plate-mark ; Width: 522 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper right in pen 'I'
Titled at the top, and at the bottom thirteen lines with the rules of the game, followed by 'G M Mitelli I F'
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","An album of twelve etchings of board games. The album is bound in a 19th century binding with a label on the front 'Mitelli Giuochi diversi'. 
For another impression of this print, see 1893,0331.29","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,allegory/personification,Representation of: Tyche/Fortuna,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/3f8dd27f_46f1_48f1_a379_a3ba016821ba/preview_00265787_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.16",Gioco degli occhi e bocche (Object),,,"Game board with twenty squares, each occupied by a mouth or eye; the 'beautiful eyes' win all. 1690
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 307 millimetres; Width: 443 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the bottom in two lines, continuing with the rules of the game; signed 'Mi I E F' at the top and dated 'Anno 1690'",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.16",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/39756d10_f9f4_4557_bf1a_a3bb005a5846/preview_00304117_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1876,0510.649",Die Anfangsgründe der Rechenkunst (Object),,,"Game board with 100 numbered or pictorial compartments, with illustrations including books bearing letters of the alphabet, flowers, animals and birds arranged in a spiral with the number 100 in the centre in a garland; in the top left corner an addition table, in the top right a division table, in the lower left a subtraction table and in the lower right a multiplication table.
Etching",Print made by: Georg Dein,,,,,,,18thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 350 millimetres approx ; Width: 295 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Beneath the title ""ein Spiel für die Jugend"" and beneath the board "" Nürnberg bei Georg Dein""","As pointed out by John Spear (email July 12 2010) this game is nearly identical to the Arithmetical Pastime produced by John Wallis on 19 April 1798. The primary difference is that the German version refers to sections in a book whereas the Wallis version list instructions.As this copy is early 18th Century, Wallis must have copied it.",,Not on display,,,animal; bird; flower; mathematics,,,,,Purchased from: Edward C Bigmore,,,,1897,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1876,0510.649",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/14961817_67d8_43ea_be2e_a3b600faa083/preview_00017737_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1869,0410.2460.+",Il piacevole e nuovo giuoco novamente trovato detto pela il chiu (Object),,,"Game board with four concentric ovals containing squares with dice alternating with human or theatrical types; in the centre two owls.  1589
Engraving",Print made by: Ambrogio Brambilla;  Published by: Giovanni Battista di Lazzaro Panzera da Parma,,,,,,,1589,Published in: Rome (city),,paper,,,engraving,Height: 404 millimetres; Width: 523 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and in centre 'Romae Baptiste Parmensis formis 1589' and the monogram of Brambilla. In the four corners are the rules of the game, beginning 'Questo foglio il bel gioco s'appresenta / Di pela il Chiu venuto in luce adesso / Col qual se fugir l'otio si talenta / ti potrai trattener tal hor con esso.'","(Text from Naomi Lebens, 'Prints in Play', 2017)
Brambilla's game-board is the earliest dated example of pelachiù [pluck the owl], a popular gambling game in which players wager a stake of money [quattrini] on the board. They then look for the space which corresponds to their throw of three dice and follow the instructions: 'T' indicates they should take the specified number of quattrini from the pool and 'P' that they should pay it into the pool. A triple throw wins half the stake, and a throw of three sixes wins the game. Owl figures illustrate the most profitable spaces, whilst others feature vignettes of street-traders and entertainers.
(Text from Michael Bury, 'The Print in Italy 1550-1620', BM 2001, cat.103.)
The name of the game means 'pluck the owl'. It involved throwing three dice, identifying the place that corresponded to the throw on either the inner or the outer oval and then carrying out the written instructions. 'T' means tira that is the instruction to take the number of quattrini ('Q') indicated; 'P' means paga that is the instruction to pay out the number of quattrini indicated. A throw of three sixes takes all.  
The idea will have been to buy one of these prints and stick it down onto a hard surface of some kind in order to form a game-board. The game is listed in the Vaccari stocklist of 1614 as 'Il giuco del pela Chiù', along with a small group of other games, including the famous 'Oca' (Ehrle, 1908, p.62). It also appears in the 1648 De Rossi inventory documenting the division of the inheritance from Giuseppe de Rossi the elder (Consagra, 1993, p.512). It evidently remained popular, for there were boards still being produced in the eighteenth century (Bertarelli).
The language of the inscriptions points to a source in north-east Italy. This example has the address of Giovanni Battista Panzera, an engraver and printer from Parma who had shop in the Borgo in Rome. A number of Brambilla's works carry his address. Perhaps as a result of his contacts in the north of Italy, he had copies made of other prints that had been published there, most importantly Agostino Carracci's two great engravings after Correggio: the Madonna of St Jerome and the Ecce Homo.",,Not on display,"2001/2 Sep-Jan, BM, P&D, The Print in Italy 1550-1620
2002 Feb-Mar, New York, Miriam & Ira D Wallach AG, The Print in Italy
2002/3 Sep-Jan, Ottawa, NG of Canada, The Print in Italy 1550-1620
2003 Feb-Apr, Edinburgh, NG of Scotland, The Print in Italy 1550-1620
2006/7 Oct-Jan, London, V&A, 'The Renaissance Home:...'
2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play",,,,,,,Purchased from: Edward Daniell,,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca (sale Sotheby's 24-7.ii.1869); Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Madrazo",1869,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1869,0410.2460.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/3c48e3aa_dbd3_45c7_af69_a3b501076c6e/preview_00141688_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.483",Il nuovo gioco de li animali (Object),,,"Game board with twenty numbered positions, each showing an animal and marked with the corresponding throw of the dice
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 300 millimetres; Width: 402 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled in the centre, followed in nine lines with the rules of the game, followed by 'G M I F'",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,animal,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.483",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/59751e43_782d_4769_93a0_a3bb005dc805/preview_00305007_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1882,0211.88",Jeu des Cosaques (Object),,,"Game board with numbered compartments from 1 to 63 arranged in a spiral, each containing a Cossack or a weapon; in the central panel the rules of the game, above a view of a Cossack camp; in each corner, a view of Moscow.
Etching with letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1814 (after),,,paper,,,etching; letterpress,Height: 449 millimetres; Width: 601 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along top of central panel and the rules; each compartment bears a description of its contents beneath,,,Not on display,,,,,Topographic representation of: Moscow,,,Purchased from: Rev J R Simpson,,,,1882,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1882,0211.88",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/12c20e39_79c1_4086_ae9a_a3b600faaf2d/preview_00017740_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 2001,0930.22",Grand Jeu de l'Oie du Bicentenaire de L'Imagerie d'Epinal (Object),,,"Game-board, the squares depicting various subjects including devils, animals, geese and mythical scenes; a view of the Imagerie d'Epinal at centre; with tokens on left and right hand sides and instructions below.  1996
Colour photomechanical print with some hand-colouring and letterpress, printed on wove paper",Published by: Imagerie d'Epinal,,,,,,,1996,Published in: Épinal,,paper,,,photomechanical print; hand-coloured; colour; letterpress,Height: 412 millimetres; Width: 519 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title and rules.  Numbered in pencil, 218/1000.",This print was produced to commemorate the bicentenary of the Pellerin print factory.,,Not on display,"2005-2007 Partnership UK tour, Across the Board",,animal; bird; devil/demon; sport/pastime,,Topographic representation of: Épinal,,,Purchased from: Imagerie d'Epinal; Purchased through: Sheila O'Connell,,,,2001,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2001,0930.22",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/85c58af7_098b_4ea1_9935_a3b8013098a2/preview_00322234_001.jpg,print; game-board; game-counter,"No: 1893,0331.133",Le Jeu d'assaut (Object),,,"Board game with several elements: 
1. hand-coloured etched game-board arranged in the form of a cross comprised of 5 squares, with diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines linking each to its immediate neighbours; the top square of the cross represents a military camp on either side of which are firing cannons and trees; at the bottom military tents on either side of the board; pasteboard, backed with wood-cut decorated paper; kept in pasteboard slip-case 
2. rule pamphlet printed in letterpress in French and German kept in slip-case with board
3. set of 14 cards each divided into 5 numbered compartments with hand-coloured etchings of cries, seasons, etc. and titles below in pen and ink; pasteboard, backed with gold-tooled decorated paper
4. cream-coloured silk bag containing 87 conical wooden counters and a round perforated wooden disk with ivory pegs and a handle.
5. silk bag (red on one side, red and cream striped on the other) containing a key",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC(late),Published in: London (England),,paper; pasteboard; wood; ivory,,,etching; hand-coloured; woodcut,Height: 348 millimetres board ; Height: 188 millimetres cards ; Width: 149 millimetres; Width: 312 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: On the slip-case, 9 lines of manuscript in French, most of which has been crossed  through. Titles in manuscript on cards.",,,Not on display,,,military,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.133",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/9ebc8a94_08de_460b_8b06_a3b600faead8/preview_00017870_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.123",The Noble Game of the Swan (Object),,,"Game-board with nineteen compartments, including (no. 3) the British Museum, arranged on the body of a swan; with blue-paper covered rule book in slip-case covered with marbled paper with a hand-coloured etching of swans in a landscape; publisher's labels on verso of game-board and slip-case. 1821
Hand-coloured etching backed on linen.",Published by: William Darton;  Printed by: George Smallfield,,,,,,,1821,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 390 millimetres; Width: 484 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered on swan's neck with title and publisher's name and address, with numbers in each compartment, and at the bottom with publication details, ""London: Published by William Darton; 58, Holborn Hill.""",,"Shefrin 2009 / The Dartons: Publishers of Educational Aids, Pastimes and Juvenile Ephemera",Not on display,"Exhibited:
2019, 18 Apr-29 Sep, BM, Gallery 69a, Playing with Money: Currency and Games
2005-2007 Partnership UK tour, Across the Board",,bird,Associated with: The British Museum,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.123",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/38e9bd5d_3c19_4a0f_8e99_a3bb005c6bb1/preview_00304723_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.62",Il Vero Giuoco della Barca (Object),,,"Game board with a boat with two sailors, within a ring bearing numbers interspersed with shellfish, putti in each corner of the board and the instructions in letterpress beneath
lithograph with letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,19thC(late),,,paper,,,lithograph; letterpress,Height: 377 millimetres; Width: 280 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along top and ""dichiarazione sopra il giuoco della barca"" beneath",,,Not on display,,,fish; boat/ship,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.62",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/9c7e93d8_aea7_4100_b196_a3bb005a6988/preview_00304123_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.83",Das Gänse-Spiel (Object),,,"Game-board in an octagonal shape with circular compartments numbered from 1 to 63, some bearing pictures of geese, etc.; in each corner, street-musicians or entertainers; in the centre a man driving a flock of geese and the titles; instructions beneath the board.
Hand-coloured lithograph",Published by: Johann Raab,,,,,,,19thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,lithograph; hand-coloured,"Height: 340 millimetres approx ; Width: 280 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title in the centre and the rules in 8 lines beneath; along the bottom to right ""Nürnberg bei Joh. Raab""",,,Not on display,,,bird,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.83",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/06f58a01_846c_4b92_bc22_a3bb005a55a8/preview_00304116_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1865,0610.1158",,,,"Game-board (?) with 48 numbered compartments arranged in vertical rows, each bearing an illustration including animals, owls and tools; underneath each compartment, three faces of a die, with a forfeit e.g. ""Pay 2 Pence"", etc..
Etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC(early) (?),,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured; wood-engraving; letterpress,Height: 395 millimetres; Width: 319 millimetres,,,,Not on display,,,bird; animal; tool/implement,,,,,Purchased from: Edward Daniell,,,,1865,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1865,0610.1158",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/e8e4d18b_856b_4929_91df_a3b600faf565/preview_00017872_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.131",The Royal and Entertaining Game of the Goose (Object),,,"Game-board with a set of twelve rules in the centre; in the corners, top left and right, portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte, bottom left, Fortune standing on a wheel beneath an arch at the beginning of the game, bottom right, a view of three men at a table playing the game. 1800-1820
Hand-coloured etching, varnished, framed and backed with green baize.",Published by: James Lumsden & Son,,,,,,,1800-1820,Published in: Glasgow,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 480 millimetres; Width: 358 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered at the top with title, in the body of game with numbers, rules and other text, and at the bottom with publication details, ""Published & Sold Wholesale by James Lumsden & Son Glasgow, Where may be had the Entertaining Game of the Snake.""","See S. O'Connell, The Popular Print in England, 1999, pp. 37-39.",,Not on display,"2005-2007 Partnership UK tour, Across the Board",,bird,"Portrait of: George III, King of the United Kingdom;  Portrait of: Charlotte, Queen of George III",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.131",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/948d4ec3_3bae_4b25_847c_a3b8012d5c6b/preview_00321465_001.jpg,print; game-board; spectacles,"No: 1893,1015.7",Die vier Jahrszeiten oder neues Brillenspiel (Object),,,"Game-board with 12 pictorial compartments arranged in a square, showing various figures and buildings, with a larger central compartment showing Time. Accompanied by a letterpress rule sheet in French and German and a pair of pince-nez spectacles with yellow lenses, which are to be worn upon landing on the tenth square. All in a slip case. 1810-20
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1810-1820,,,paper; metal; glass,,,etching; hand-coloured; letterpress,Height: 313 millimetres; Width: 307 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title and descriptions of each sqaure,"According to Werner Weismuller (personal communication, October 2007) the spectacles date to between 1810 and 1820 when they were made specifically for this game. He records three other examples of the game, two in private collections (Netherlands and Nuremburg) and the other in the British Optical Association Museum.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,1015.7",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/697e64fe_a6f7_44e2_919d_a3bb005ce77e/preview_00304666_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.44",Il Piacevole Gioco dell'Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 62 arranged in a spiral, in the centre a door, numbered 63, through which a woman carrying a basket of fruit enters a room in which people are feasting; beneath the central panel, a grotesque mask with ""G. S.""
Woodcut",,,,,,,,17thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,"Height: 395 millimetres; Width: 329 millimetres printed area ",,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.44",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/f866c145_2300_4859_9da9_a3bb005e36f4/preview_00305150_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.91",Jeu de l'Oie (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral; in the centre, the final compartment being an archway; the rules detailed in the centre.
Hand-coloured woodcut with letterpress",Published by: Jean-Pierre Heubach,,,,,,,1760-1799,,,paper,,,woodcut; hand-coloured; letterpress,Height: 379 millimetres; Width: 487 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the centre, the rules in 17 lines in letterpress, in the bottom margin ""A PARIS, & se vend à LAUSANNE, chez J.P. HEUBACH""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.91",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_6/3997705f_a3a0_4011_aaff_a3bb006c845b/preview_00309614_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.89","Nouveau jeu des théatres de Melpomene, Momus et Thalie (Object)",,,"Game board with 63 numbered pictorial compartments, each showing an actor or actress in role; lettered with his or her name, the name of the character, the play and the theatre in which it ran 
Etching",Published by: Antoine de Fer;  Print made by: Nicolas Cochin (?),,,,,,,18thC(late),,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 440 millimetres sheet, cropped ; Width: 551 millimetres sheet, cropped ",Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title and the rules in centre,,,Not on display,,,theatre/theatrical life,Representation of: François Joseph Talma,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.89",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/f88dad35_3925_46e6_b9e5_a3bb005eba73/preview_00305345_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.98",Jeu de l'amour et de l'himené (Object),,,"Game board with 80 numbered compartments arranged in a spiral representing the stages a couple go through before arriving at the altar, with the game's instructions in the middle; pastoral scenes at each corner",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC(late)-19thC(early),,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 395 millimetres approx ; Width: 468 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: The rules in the centre, the name of an emotion in each compartment",,,Not on display,,,marriage/wedding; love (allegorical),,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.98",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/3be28195_9bf2_4d48_a4f6_a3bb005dcd11/preview_00305008_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.66",Jeu des Fortifications ou de la Guerre (Object),,,"Game board with numbered compartments from 1 to 63 arranged in a spiral, each containing a plan of  a fortification or a scene of military life
Etching with letterpress and stipple",Print made by: Anonymous;  Published by: Paul André Basset,,,,,,,1815-1819 (?),,,paper,,,etching; letterpress; stipple,"Height: 514 millimetres; Width: 665 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along top of central panel and the rules; each compartment bears a description of its contents beneath; in bottom left ""A Paris chez Basset. Md. d'Estampes, Rue St. Jacques, No. 64' and to right ""Déposé à la Direction Générale de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie""",,,Not on display,,,military,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.66",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 1925,0615.181",Jeu Impérial (Object),,,"Game board with 67 numbered pictorial compartments, each containing a scene from the Napoleonic wars or Napoleon's life in general, beginning with his schooling at Brienne and ending with his exile and his burial in the Invalides, arranged in a spiral, around a central panel, in which are detailed the rules; medallion portraits of Napoleon, Napoleons II, III and IV in the corners
Lithograph",Print made by: L Tanty;  Printed by: Becquet (?),,,,,,,1860-1870 (c.),,,paper,,,lithograph,Height: 567 millimetres image ; Height: 590 millimetres sheet ; Width: 767 millimetres; Width: 820 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with rules in 5 lines in the centre, plus more specific rules for various squares in three columns below; also lettered with production detail: 'L. Tanty del. & lith.' and 'Paris, Imp. Becquet, Rue des Noyers 37'.",,,Not on display,,,military,"Portrait of: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (Napoleon);  Portrait of: Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt;  Portrait of: Napoléon III, Emperor of the French;  Portrait of: Prince Louis Napoléon",,,,"Purchased from: David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres (L.1685c); Purchased through: Sotheby's (29/30.iv.1925); Purchased through: Thomas Agnew & Sons",,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford",1925,"The BM bought 45 lots at the 1925 sale of the Lindsay library collection of French revolutionary and Napoleonic era prints through Agnew's for a total of £92 17s (1925,0615.131 to 466). The collection had been formed by the vendor's father, the 26th Earl. The BM acquired many other prints from the same collection at other times.",,Prints and Drawings,,"1925,0615.181",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/cd19a69c_2275_44fd_bf29_a3bb005feeba/preview_00305592_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.112",Mappe-monde ou carte générale de toute la terre (Object),,,"Game board with 78 numbered compartments, each containing place names; two globes and rules and keys in the centre.  
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC(late),,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 432 millimetres; Width: 555 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title  in a cartouche, reading ""MAPPEMONDE..."" and rulesand a key in centre of the board.",,,Not on display,,,map/plan,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.112",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/d62098a1_2e27_4895_a0ed_a3bb005dd95f/preview_00305011_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.68",Jeu de l'Oie (Object),,,"Game board with 63 numbered pictorial compartments; in the centre, the rules of the game and the 63rd compartment, in which is a goose being crowned with laurels in a garden
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Ledoyen,,,,,,,19thC(early),,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 362 millimetres; Width: 435 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title in the centre and the rules, beneath which ""A Paris, chez LEDOYEN, Rue St. Jacques, No. 21. Déposé"" and in lower left corner, beneathe the margin of the board ""Ecrit par A. Ch""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.68",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/c0a8210e_5e11_4836_ab2b_a3b8012f1e65/preview_00321901_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,1015.15",,,,"Game-board with 83 numbered compartments, arranged in a squared spiral, showing various buildings, signposts, horsemen, etc; the central square being a walled city. 1790
Hand-coloured etching backed with decorated paper",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1790,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 415 millimetres sheet ; Width: 491 millimetres sheet ",,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,1015.15",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/2788e3c2_f734_411c_9e6d_a3bb005c700b/preview_00304674_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.55",Il  nuovo e piacevole giuoco del pela il chiu (Object),,,"Game board with four concentric ovals containing squares with dice or dots, interspersed with crowned owls; in the centre a crowned owl atop a crown resting on three dice showing sixes.  
Woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 450 millimetres; Width: 340 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at bottom and in centre beneath the owl ""Tira/ Honoran-/ za/ Tutti"". In the two top corners are the rules of the game.","(Edited text from Michael Bury, 'The Print in Italy 1550-1620', BM 2001, cat.103.)
The name of the game means 'pluck the owl'. It involved throwing three dice, identifying the place that corresponded to the throw on either the inner or the outer oval and then carrying out the written instructions. 'T' means tira that is the instruction to take the number of quattrini ('Q') indicated; 'P' means paga that is the instruction to pay out the number of quattrini indicated. A throw of three sixes takes all.  
The idea will have been to buy one of these prints and stick it down onto a hard surface of some kind in order to form a game-board. The game is listed in the Vaccari stocklist of 1614 as 'Il giuco del pela Chiù', along with a small group of other games, including the famous 'Oca' (Ehrle, 1908, p.62). It also appears in the 1648 De Rossi inventory documenting the division of the inheritance from Giuseppe de Rossi the elder (Consagra, 1993, p.512). It evidently remained popular, for there were boards still being produced in the eighteenth century [of which this is one].; This is a late impression, andf stamped with the catalogue (?) number 1885",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.55",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/39d684dd_10e9_4e88_8b15_a3bb005c184b/preview_00304478_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.103",,,,"Game-board with 62 compartments, each coloured differently, some depicting buildings, some figures, some animals and some trees; in the lower centre two scenes of executions (?); in the centre, a further 24 numbered squares, arranged in 6 rows of 4, half of which depict skulls.
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC (?),,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 351 millimetres approx; sheet ; Width: 330 millimetres approx; sheet ",,,,Not on display,,,death,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.103",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/469e9d62_da4c_44b5_8012_a3bb005b7f01/preview_00304419_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.47",Il Gioco dell'Ocha (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral; in the centre, a goose
Woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 378 millimetres; Width: 257 millimetres,,Printed from an old block and stamped with the catalogue (?) number 1883,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.47",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/1b86662c_9060_4bb5_aa08_a3bb005bf64e/preview_00304413_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.49",Il Diletevole Gioco del' Ocha (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral, in the centre  a crude figure clutching a goose
Woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 490 millimetres; Width: 368 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Along the top, lettered with the title, at bottom ""Piazza Pasquino N. 4""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.49",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/f21ad1f5_eaf0_43df_a45d_a3bb005b830b/preview_00304421_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.46",Il Diletevole Gioco del'Ocha (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral; in the centre, a peasant holding a goose
Woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 453 millimetres; Width: 338 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title and in the lower right corner ""Chi perde/ suo danno/ che cosiva/ il gioco""",Printed from an old block and stamped with the catalogue (?) number 1889,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.46",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/f2cb46cf_9f5f_4abd_9ee1_a3bb005c3b8e/preview_00304541_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.53",,,,"Game board for the Game of the Goose with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral, in the centre is a figure in a robe
woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 392 millimetres; Width: 289 millimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.53",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/e0be502f_22aa_494c_b1e6_a3bb005ba8d5/preview_00304382_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.40",Giuoco Nuovissimo ...della storia Romana dalla fondazione de Roma Sino a Costantino (Object),,,"Game board with numbered  compartments from 1 to 60, each detailing an event in the history of Rome from its foundation to the reign of Constantine arranged around a central panel, in which are detailed the rules.
Letterpress with decorative woodcut borders",Published by: Remondini,,,,,,,1813,,,paper,,,letterpress,"Height: 448 millimetres printed area ; Width: 595 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the central panel, the title and various instructions for playing the game and at the bottom ""BASSANO 1813 - Dalla Stamperia Giuseppe Remondi e Figli""",,,Not on display,,,fisherman/fishing,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.40",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/7c5ed5b6_9e81_482e_97be_a3bb005c1943/preview_00304528_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.138",Grosses arithmetisches Zalen Quadrat-Spiel von 64 Zalen (Object),,,"Game-board with 70 compartments in 7 rows of 10 squares, 64 of which depict a number between 1 and 64 (although not in order), an object, animal or character and an inscription beneath with its name and score; the remaining 6 compartments contain the rules and some mathematical tables.
Etching",Print made by: Johann Trautner,,,,,,,18thC(early),Printed in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching,Height: 300 millimetres; Width: 366 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Two lines of further rules beneath the board, to right ""Ioh: Trautner exc. Nürnberg""",,,Not on display,,,mathematics,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.138",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/8ff6f355_8e81_4fb6_aef1_a3bb005c1de7/preview_00304530_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.140",Neues Seereisen Spiel (Object),,,"Game-board with 65 numbered compartments, some of them illustrated with people of various nationalities, wildlife etc, arranged in 8 rows of 8, with the central diamond-shaped compartment showing a river with a city behind and inscribed 'Ersehntes Land', the rules beneath.
Etching",Published by: G.N. Renner,,,,,,,19thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching,Height: 360 millimetres; Width: 301 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: To the bottom left of the board ""Nürnberg bei G.N. Renner"", beneath the board, the rules in 5 lines",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.140",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/242dcb12_2eb6_4465_98d6_a3bb005acf3f/preview_00304158_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.101",Robinson Crusoe: Ein neues Würfel-Spiel (Object),,,"Game-board with 49 compartments arranged in a spiral, some of them depicting scenes and characters from 'Robinson Crusoe'; the central compartment showing his reunion with his father (?); different scenes from the novel in each corner, with the title and rules beneath.
Hand-coloured lithograph",Published by: G.N. Renner,,,,,,,19thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,lithograph; hand-coloured,"Height: 323 millimetres approx ; Width: 268 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: To the bottom left of the board ""Nürnberg im Verlag von G.N. Renners Kunsthandlung"", beneath the board the title in two lines, the rules in 6 lines",,,Not on display,,,,Representation of: Robinson Crusoe;  Illustration to: Daniel Defoe,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.101",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/690badc0_4841_4338_8909_a3bb005b871f/preview_00304372_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1942,1023.1.1-24",,,,"23 playing cards, each bearing a character from the British Isles (e.g. 'Ailleen of Kilkenny', 'Prince Charlie', the 'Welch Shepperd', 'England's Hope') plus those from France and Prussia.  Beneath each card, a conundrum, the answers to which are on a separate sheet.
Hand-coloured lithographs",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1863 (after?),Printed in: Paris (France),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured; wood-engraving; letterpress,"Height: 103 millimetres each card, approx ; Height: 150 millimetres rules ; Width: 61 millimetres each card, approx ; Width: 81 millimetres",,number 14 is missing,,Not on display,,,humour,"Representation of: Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom;  Representation of: Alexandra, Queen of Edward VII",,,,,,,,1942,Given by Miss Mary Regan,,Prints and Drawings,,"1942,1023.1.1-24",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/8367772f_0990_4fab_88bc_a3bb005fdb50/preview_00305688_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1895,0121.1",Le Jeu du Blason (Object),,,"Game board with numbered compartments from 1 to 63 arranged in a spiral, each containing  heraldic symbols or coats of arms, the final compartment being the coat of arms of the king; the rules detailed in three of the four corners.  1718
Etching",Print made by: Nicolas de Fer;  Published by: Nicolas de Fer,,,,,,,1718,Printed in: Paris (France),,paper,,,etching,"Height: 423 millimetres approx ; Width: 557 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the central panel, the title and 5 lines detailing the purpose of the game, commencing ""L'on doit considere ce jeu comme une Metode ou Introduction a l'Art du Blason...""; beneath which ""A PARIS/ Chez l'Auteur dans l'Isle du Palais sur le/ Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale 1718""; a dedication to Louis Phelipeaux, Marquis de la Vrillière, in the lower left corner.",,,Not on display,,,heraldry,"Associated with: Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de la Vrillière",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1895,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1895,0121.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/c90f5762_3d06_4646_b5de_a3bb005c0d81/preview_00304522_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.137",Deutches Ritterspiel (Object),,,"Game-board with 62 compartments, each coloured differently, some depicting buildings, some figures, some animals and some trees; in the lower centre a scene of two armoured men fighting with swords on horseback, a man being knighted, and in the centre, a circle, around the edge of which are 24 triangles numbered 1 to 24, half of which depict skulls; in the centre of the circle, two knights jouisting.
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Antonio Paterno,,,,,,,18thC,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 444 millimetres; Width: 327 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: At top of central panel ""Wien bey Ant Paterno"" and the title",,,Not on display,,,knight; jousting,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.137",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/fdb9c0d6_fc4d_4ca2_9438_a3b8012e0430/preview_00321620_001.jpg,print; game-board; playing-card,"No: 1893,1015.16.1-5",Sieg und Friedens Spiel der Kosacken und Franzosen (Object),,,"A set of 5 cards, showing variously, laurel, an olive-branch, a mounted Cosack, a mounted Cosack killing an enemy, a French soldier. In a board slip-case bearing a printed label with the title and publishing details.
Hand-coloured etchings",Published by: Georg Ebner,,,,,,,19thC(early),Printed in: Paris (France),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 98 millimetres each card, approx ; Width: 73 millimetres each card, approx ",,,,Not on display,,,classical mythology,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,1015.16.1-5",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_21/cfbe9829_ad7e_4775_9a44_a3dc015c3218/preview_01324611_001.jpg,print; popular print; game-board,"No: 2012,7020.32",Chinesen-Spiel. (Object),,,"Circular game-board with sixty three fields for cutting out; head and shoulders of a Chinese man at centre, directed to right, smoking a pipe, surrounded numbered fields, some with Chinese figures and buildings; below, numbers between 1 and 15 for cutting out; No.34 d from a series. 
Stencil-printed lithograph",Print made by: Anonymous;  Published by: Ackermann,,,,,,,1850-1899,Published in: Wissembourg,,paper,,,lithograph; stencil printing,"Height: 432 millimetres sheet ; Width: 340 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Fields numbered; numbered below image 'No. 34 d.' and lettered below board with publication detail: 'Imagerie alsacienne R  Ackermann Wissembourg succr. de F. C. Wentzel.', the title and rules of the game.",Published in the period when Elsass was part of Germany.,,Not on display,,,chinese; smoking,,,,,Purchased from: Dietrich Hecht,,,,2012,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2012,7020.32",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/08b185b4_8c3d_437e_b724_a3bb005a5dd4/preview_00304119_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.78",Stationen Spiel auf der Reise dieses Lebens in Bildern (Object),,,"Game board representing the stages of life in three rows of five compartments; with stages one to six showing childhood, marriage etc, interspersed with compartments representing the journeys one has to undertake, numbered consecutively with two faces of a die; the rules detailed beneath.
Etching",Print made by: Johann Trautner,,,,,,,18thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 300 millimetres; Width: 351 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along the top and the rules in 5 lines beneath the board; beneath each compartment two lines of text. In lower right corner ""Joh. Trautner excutd""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.78",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/a5164a1c_be4e_4c76_9b6e_a3bb005e3b3f/preview_00305151_001.jpg,print; game-board; map,"No: 1893,0331.92",Le Jeu de France (Object),,,"Game board with cartographical compartments, each showing a part of France, numbered from 1 to 63 in a spiral; the final compartment in the centre is a complete map of France; the rules detailed in each corner
Etching",Print made by: E. Vouillemont;  Published by: Antoine de Fer,,,,,,,1671,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 385 millimetres; Width: 524 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the centre, the rules in 17 lines in letterpress, in the bottom margin ""A PARIS, & se vend à LAUSANNE, chez J.P. HEUBACH""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.92",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/949e120c_520c_46b5_9164_a3ba01681e8b/preview_00265786_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.15",Gioco dell'amata con gli amanti (Object),,,"Game board with a woman and her suitors, each position marked with a different throw of the dice. 1690
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 310 millimetres; Width: 443 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, continuing with the rules of the game in two lines in the lower margin; signed 'Mi I E F 1690' at the bottom left.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,marriage/wedding,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.15",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/dd95086f_c3b3_4d0f_b22c_a3ba0167a1d0/preview_00265749_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.26",Zuogh dal cacciator (Object),,,"Game board marked with eleven different positions each with a scene of bird hunting, marked for a different throw of the dice.  1699
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1699,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 255 millimetres; Width: 439 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, continued with the rules of the game in two lines, and with descriptions of each hunting scene by each of the sections; signed 'Mio gioco Mitelli fe 1699' in the bottom right.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,hunting/shooting,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.26",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/f3b60bb8_5c6d_482a_af10_a3ba01684e34/preview_00265800_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.29",Gioco della fortuna e di disgratia (Object),,,"Game board with twenty-two ovals, each with a different person and his or her fortune or misfortune, each marked with the corresponding throw of the dice
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 298 millimetres; Width: 409 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled at the top, and at the bottom twelve lines with the rules of the game, followed by 'G M Mitelli I F'","For another impression, see 1893,0331.29","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.29",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/c7385aac_d2b1_4d56_a1ae_a3bb005ce9fa/preview_00304716_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.61",,,,"Game board for the game of the goose with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral, in the centre are detailed the rules of the game, around the board, various geese.
lithograph",Published by: Luigi Medoni,,,,,,,19thC(late),Published in: Milan (city),,paper,,,lithograph; letterpress,Height: 383 millimetres; Width: 279 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Along lower margin of board ""Milano - Vendesi da Luigi Medoni, Cartolaio, Corso Porta Ticinese, N. 103""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.61",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_16/70662ed8_edd1_42f2_98d0_a3b60109a8f4/preview_00021445_001.jpg,print; chess-board; chess-piece; draughts-board; draughts-piece,"No: 2004,1231.1",,,,"Portable combined pocket chess and draughts board in dark green buckram covered slip-case, with slip-in pieces (one red pawn replaced with hand-drawn copy).  c.1890
Lithograph",After: Roget;  Published by: De La Rue,,,,,,,1885-1895,Published in: London (England),,paper; cardboard,,,lithograph,Height: 150 millimetres open ; Width: 190 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Front cover lettered, ""De La Rue & Co's combined Pocket Chess and Draught Board with Chess and Draughts-men""",,,Not on display,"2005-2007 Partnership UK tour, Across the Board",,,,,,,Donated by: Robert Anderson,,,,2004,"""In my youth, when portable chess sets were the rage amongst schoolboys, I asked my mother for one.  She bought this from an antique shop in Hendon Lane, Church End, Finchley (by Christ’s College) – probably in 1956 or 1957. (I think I rather wanted the contemporary sort with plastic pieces which plugged into holes rather than this!)  I never played much and never learned to love the game.""
[Letter from Robert Anderson to Irving Finkel, dated 25/4/1995]",,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/91611014_3a42_480f_a7c0_a3b8013059e4/preview_00322213_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.134",,,,"Game board for the game of the goose with 63 numbered circular compartments, some of them showing geese, dice etc.
Lithograph backed on board",,,,,,,,19thC(late),Published in: London (England),,paper,,,lithograph,Height: 334 millimetres; Width: 307 millimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.134",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/5f7700e3_b171_470f_9f82_a3bb005b8eda/preview_00304375_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.32",Il piacevole e nuovo giuoco novamente trovato detto pela il chiu (Object),,,"Game board with four concentric ovals containing squares with dice alternating with human or theatrical types; in the centre two owls.  1589
Engraving",Print made by: Ambrogio Brambilla;  Published by: Giovanni Battista di Lazzaro Panzera da Parma,,,,,,,1589,,,paper,,,engraving,Height: 398 millimetres; Width: 519 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and in centre 'Romae Baptiste Parmensis formis 1589' and the monogram of Brambilla. In the four corners are the rules of the game, beginning 'Questo foglio il bel gioco s'appresenta / Di pela il Chiu venuto in luce adesso / Col qual se fugir l'otio si talenta / ti potrai trattener tal hor con esso.'","(Text from Michael Bury, 'The Print in Italy 1550-1620', BM 2001, cat.103.)
The name of the game means 'pluck the owl'. It involved throwing three dice, identifying the place that corresponded to the throw on either the inner or the outer oval and then carrying out the written instructions. 'T' means tira that is the instruction to take the number of quattrini ('Q') indicated; 'P' means paga that is the instruction to pay out the number of quattrini indicated. A throw of three sixes takes all.  
The idea will have been to buy one of these prints and stick it down onto a hard surface of some kind in order to form a game-board. The game is listed in the Vaccari stocklist of 1614 as 'Il giuco del pela Chiù', along with a small group of other games, including the famous 'Oca' (Ehrle, 1908, p.62). It also appears in the 1648 De Rossi inventory documenting the division of the inheritance from Giuseppe de Rossi the elder (Consagra, 1993, p.512). It evidently remained popular, for there were boards still being produced in the eighteenth century (Bertarelli).
The language of the inscriptions points to a source in north-east Italy. This example has the address of Giovanni Battista Panzera, an engraver and printer from Parma who had shop in the Borgo in Rome. A number of Brambilla's works carry his address. Perhaps as a result of his contacts in the north of Italy, he had copies made of other prints that had been published there, most importantly Agostino Carracci's two great engravings after Correggio: the Madonna of St Jerome and the Ecce Homo.; This is a late (19thc) impression, blind-stamped 'Regia calcographia di Roma'",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.32",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_22/c102c8b9_0057_444d_b904_a3e1016e7334/preview_00137034_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1869,0410.2467.+",Il novo et piacevol gioco del giardin d'amore (Object),,,"Game board with two rows with a view of a garden in the centre; the outer row numbered from I to XXII with virtues, the inner with pairs of dice showing the appropriate numbers.  c.1590
Engraving",Published by: Giovanni Antonio de Paoli,,,,,,,1589-1599,,,paper,,,engraving,Height: 465 millimetres; Width: 349 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and lower right 'Ioannes Antonius de Pauli formis',"Lit.: M. Leesberg, 'El juego real de Cupido: a Spanish board game published in Antwerp c. 1620', in: Delineavit et Sculpsit, n. 39, October 2015,  p. 23-44, ref. 8.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Edward Daniell,,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca (sale Sotheby's 24-7.ii.1869); Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Madrazo",1869,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1869,0410.2467.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/98bab1e7_a338_4dfb_b802_a3b600faa528/preview_00017738_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1869,0410.2465.+",Il nuovo et piacevole gioco dell ocha (Object),,,"Game board with divisions numbered from 1 to 63; in the centre the rules of the game, and in the four corners fools.  1598
Engraving",Published by: Lucchino Gargano,,,,,,,1598,,,paper,,,engraving,Height: 507 millimetres; Width: 378 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and lower left 'Lucchino Gargano formis 1598',"In the Gioco dell'Oca or 'Game of the Goose', players race to move tokens around the track according to the roll of two dice. Landing on those spaces marked by geese allow them to double their throw, whilst others invoke a range of outcomes: players at the inn on space 19 miss a turn, players must wait at the well on space 31 until another takes their place and the skull (Death) on space 58 sends them back to the beginning. Records of the goose-game in Italy date back to 1480. Soon popular across Europe, this is the first known impression to carry a date.
Naomi Lebens
Lit: 
M. Leesberg, 'El juego real de cupido: a Spanish board game published in Antwerp c. 1620', in: Delineavit et Sculpsit, n. 39, October 2015,  p. 23-44, ref. 5.",,Not on display,2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play,,,,,,,Purchased from: Edward Daniell,,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca (sale Sotheby's 24-7.ii.1869); Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Madrazo",1869,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1869,0410.2465.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/e944e7af_f2a1_4c37_8e7a_a3bb005bb923/preview_00304386_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.43",Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 62 arranged in a spiral, in the centre in large letterpress ""OCA/ ho vinto/ 63""  
Lithograph",,,,,,,,19thC(late),,,paper,,,lithograph; letterpress,"Height: 426 millimetres printed area ; Width: 298 millimetres printed area ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Along the bottom ""Si Vendono all'Ingrosso in via Calderari N. 25 P. P. (presso Piazza Navona)""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.43",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/1face87c_638d_451e_9580_a3b600faa9ba/preview_00017739_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1869,0410.2466.+",Il novo et piacevole gioco di carica l'asino (Object),,,"Game board with ten rows by six of different throws of the dice and their significance; in the centre two men load a donkey with sacks.  1590s
Engraving",Published by: Giovanni Antonio de Paoli,,,,,,,1590s,,,paper,,,engraving,Height: 478 millimetres; Width: 330 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and in centre 'Iohanni antoni di pauoli formi Rorma' [sic],"Similar in principle to pelachiù, the underlying conceit of this gambling game is a play upon the Italian words caricare [to load] and scaricare [to unload]. The image in the centre depicts two roughly dressed labourers loading and unloading a donkey with heavy sacks. Their labour relates to the play of the game as landing on spaces inscribed with the word 'carica' resulting in the player 'loading' two quattrini into the game-pool, whilst spaces inscribed with the word 'scarica' allow them to 'unload' six quattrini from the game-pool. Spaces with the word 'nulla' result in no action.
Naomi Lebens",,Not on display,"2005-2007 Partnership UK tour, Across the Board
2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play",,,,,,,Purchased from: Edward Daniell,,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca (sale Sotheby's 24-7.ii.1869); Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Madrazo",1869,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1869,0410.2466.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/4fa40a8a_b84b_49f1_95c5_a3bb005eac89/preview_00305340_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.110",Tableau chronologique et historique des Principaux Evenements arrivées en France... (Object),,,"Game board with 102 numbered compartments in a spiral, each containing a year and its events in French history, from 20 A.D. to 1774; in the centre, 67 compartments in a serpentine form, each with a medallion of a King of France, with details of his reign; the rules of the game above, either side of a cartouche bearing the title.  1776
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Jean Baptiste Crépy,,,,,,,1776,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 448 millimetres approx ; Width: 560 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title, beneath which. ""Se vend A Paris Chez/ Crepy rue St/ jacques"" and rules in centre of the board; in lower right corner, beneath the the margin of the board  ""Avec Privilege du Roi""",,,Not on display,,,,"Representation of: Pharamond, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Chlodio, King of the Salian Franks;  Representation of: Mérovée, King of the Salian Franks;  Representation of: Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks;  Representation of: Clovis I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Childebert I, King of Paris;  Representation of: Clotaire I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Childebert II, King of Austrasia;  Representation of: Childebert IV (Childebert III), King of the Franks;  Representation of: Clotaire II, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Dagobert I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Clovis II, King of Neustria and Burgundy;  Representation of: Clotaire III, King of Neustria;  Representation of: Childeric II, King of Austrasia and Neustria;  Representation of: Thierry I;  Representation of: Clovis IV, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Dagobert II, King of Austrasia;  Representation of: Chilperic II, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Thierry II, King of Austrasia and Burgundy;  Representation of: Childeric III, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Pepin the Short, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Emperor Charlemagne;  Representation of: Louis I the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks;  Representation of: Charles II the Bald, King of France;  Representation of: Louis II, King of France;  Representation of: Louis III, King of France;  Representation of: Charles III the Fat, Emperor;  Representation of: Eudes, King of Western Francia;  Representation of: Charles III the Simple, King of Western Francia and Lotharingia;  Representation of: Raoul, Duke of Burgundy and King of Western Francia;  Representation of: Louis IV, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Lothair, King of West Francia;  Representation of: Louis V, King of Western Francia (France);  Representation of: Hugues Capet, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Henri I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Philippe I, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Louis VI, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Louis VII, King of the Franks;  Representation of: Philippe II (Philippe Auguste), King of France;  Representation of: Louis VIII, King of France;  Representation of: St Louis, King Louis IX of France;  Representation of: Philippe IV, King of France;  Representation of: Louis X, King of France;  Representation of: Philippe V, King of France;  Representation of: Charles IV, King of France;  Representation of: Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy;  Representation of: Jean II, King of France;  Representation of: Charles V, King of France;  Representation of: Charles VI, King of France;  Representation of: Charles VII, King of France;  Representation of: Louis XI, King of France;  Representation of: Charles VIII the Affable, King of France;  Representation of: Louis XII, King of France;  Representation of: François I, King of France;  Representation of: Henri II, King of France;  Representation of: François II, King of France;  Representation of: Charles IX, King of France;  Representation of: Henri III, King of France;  Representation of: Henri IV, King of France and Navarre;  Representation of: Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre;  Representation of: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre;  Representation of: Louis XV, King of France and Navarre",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.110",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/b287c1f8_a370_48a6_a698_a3bb005ddd15/preview_00305012_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.69",Le Nouveau Jeu des Cris de Paris (Object),,,"Game board with 44 numbered pictorial compartments arranged in a spiral, each representing one of the cries of Paris, with the cry beneath; the final compartment, crowned and wreathed in laurels representing a man handing out printed sheets and labelled ""l'Heureux"", and below ""Edit du Joieux Avenement""; in the centre, the rules of the game; in the lower left corner, a man standing on a scale, whilst weights are placed on the other side, to right, two dogs, one pissing on a parcel labelled ""N O"", the other defecating on some prints, the whole labelled ""La Balance Royale""; in the lower right corner, a merry-go-round, labelled ""la Bague"", in the top right corner, a crowd of people watching a play ""le Fameux Polichinel"", labelled ""Les Parades""; in the top left corner, a man standing at a door, holding a sack, whilst another man pours the contents of a jug on his head from the window above, a line of musicians along the bottom, as though sitting in front of a stage, labelled ""les Battus paient. l'Amande""
Etching",Published by: Jean Baptiste Crépy,,,,,,,1779 (after?),,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 490 millimetres approx ; Width: 680 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title  and the rules in the centre, as well as an ""Avertissement"", reading ""l'On trouvera chés le même Marchand un assortiment des Jeux/ d'Histoires, Géographiques, pour l'Instruction de la Jeunesse,/ et autres Jeux Récréatif et amusant, dont le Catalogue/ se distribue gratis"".  In the lower margin ""A Paris chés Crepy rue S. Jaques à S. Pierre près la rue de la parcheminerie"" and to r ""Avec Privilége du Roi""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.69",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/2748ed86_6852_465d_968f_a3b50107576d/preview_00141680_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.451.+",Gioco de mestieri a chi va bene e a chi va male (Object),,,"Game board with twenty squares showing different trades and their fortunes, each square marked for a different throw of the dice.  1698
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1698,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 322 millimetres; Width: 435 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, continued with the rules of the game in two lines, and with descriptions of each trade by each of the squares; signed 'Mitelli in e fece 1698' in the bottom right.","The prolific game-maker Mitelli adopted the model of the gambling game pelachiù for the majority of his highly inventive boards. Here, each space illustrates a different profession and corresponds to a different possible throw of two dice. Landing on the first twelve professions is profitable for the player, who takes a payment from the pool. The final eight professions involve the player making payments into the game-pool. The 'Painter, Engraver and Sculptor', where Mitelli playfully situates himself, is identified as the last and least profitable profession of them all.
Naomi Lebens","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play,,trade/occupation,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.451.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/0974bc0d_c72e_4975_97e6_a3ba0167e3fd/preview_00265767_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1899,0331.20","Gioco di Madonna Bernardina Mastra si scola, così parla a suoi scolari (Object)",,,"Game board with a scene of the school-mistress with her pupils engaged in eleven different activites, each marked with for a different throw of the dice.  1692
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1692,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 295 millimetres; Width: 388 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, and with eleven lines commenting on the figures in the scene; the rules of the game in one line along the bottom; signed 'Mitelli I E F 1692' on the stool in the bottom centre.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,school,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1899,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1899,0331.20",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/12_22/c1de9242_024a_4f6f_8673_a3e1016e6f2a/preview_00137032_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1869,0410.2461.+",Il novo bello et piacevole gioco della scimia (Object),,,"Game board with divisions numbered from 1 to 63; in the centre and around the board numerous monkeys.  1588
Etching",Published by: Altiero Gatti,,,,,,,1588,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 515 millimetres; Width: 383 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and bottom right 'Alittento Gatti formis 1588',"In this playful re-invention of the popular Game of the Goose, the repeated goose motif is replaced by a series of monkeys in comical and obscene poses that 'ape' human behaviour. The monkeys appear on the same spaces as the geese in the traditional game, as do other standard hazards such as the inn on no. 19, the well on 31 and Death on 58. No instructions appear on the board, indicating either that rules were printed separately or, more likely, that the basic format was well-known enough to require no explanation.
Naomi Lebens",,Not on display,2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play,,singerie,,,,,Purchased from: Edward Daniell,,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca (sale Sotheby's 24-7.ii.1869); Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Madrazo",1869,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1869,0410.2461.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/f055a11a_a7bd_4089_b87c_a3bb005dfe14/preview_00305020_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.65",Le Jeu d'assaut (Object),,,"Game board with 33 circles arranged in the form of a cross comprised of 5 squares, with diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines linking each to its immediate neighbours; the top square of the cross represents a military camp; on either side of which are military trophies; a tent with soldiers either side at the bottom of the board, below which are detailed the rules
Etching",Published by: Paul André Basset,,,,,,,1814 (after),,,paper,,,etching,Height: 584 millimetres; Width: 405 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: The title at top, the rules in 12 lines beneath the board, bootom r ""A Paris chez Basset. Md. d'Estampes, rue de Seine No. 33"" and to r Deposé à la Direction Générale de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie""",,,Not on display,,,military,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.65",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2017_11/17_9/ea8b24c4_baab_4c07_877c_a82e009dca12/preview_PPA63779.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.484",Gioco della fortuna e di disgratia (Object),,,"Game board with twenty-two ovals, each with a different person and his or her fortune or misfortune, each marked with the corresponding throw of the dice
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 296 millimetres; Width: 400 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled at the top, and at the bottom twelve lines with the rules of the game, followed by 'G M Mitelli I F'",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.484",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/88f320f2_312d_4ba0_b436_a3bb005fa194/preview_00305598_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.113",Le Nouveau jeu de la marine (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63, arranged in a spiral, each bearing a nautical term, sometimes with an illustration  arranged around a central panel, in which are detailed the rules, and a British ship, with each part numbered, with a key to the right; marine scenes in the bottom two corners, compasses and winds in the top two.
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Jean François Daumont;  Published by: Jean Baptiste Crépy,,,,,,,18thC(late),,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 498 millimetres approx ; Width: 730 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the central panel, the title and various instructions for playing the game; along the bottom margin ""A Paris chez Daumont Rue St Martin"" and to the right, ""A Présent chez Crepy, Rue St. Jacques à St. Pierre près la rue de la parcheminerie"" and ""Avec Privilege du Roi""",,,Not on display,,,naval,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.113",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/04fe52b7_0ea2_480f_8f7a_a3b5010749dc/preview_00141675_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.453.+","Gioco di Madonna Bernardina Mastra si scola, così parla a suoi scolari (Object)",,,"Game board with a scene of the school-mistress with her pupils engaged in eleven different activites, each marked with for a different throw of the dice.  1692
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1692,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 290 millimetres; Width: 381 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, and with eleven lines commenting on the figures in the scene; the rules of the game in one line along the bottom; signed 'Mitelli I E F 1692' on the stool in the bottom centre.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,school,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.453.+",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.452.+",Gioco degli occhi e bocche (Object),,,"Game board with twenty squares, each occupied by a mouth or eye; the 'beautiful eyes' win all. 1690
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 310 millimetres; Width: 443 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the bottom in two lines, continuing with the rules of the game; signed 'Mi I E F' at the top and dated 'Anno 1690'",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.452.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/1f63824d_2667_4874_bb14_a3bb005ee73d/preview_00305322_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.96",Nouveau Jeu militaire (Object),,,"Game board with 64 numbered compartments arranged in 3 concentric ovals, each compartment containing an officer or a military exercise; a military scene in each corner; the rules detailed in the centre
etching",Published by: Pierre Jean,,,,,,,1802-1810,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 443 millimetres; Width: 530 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the central oval, lettered with title along top; the rules detailed in 12 lines beneath, along the bottom ""A Paris, chez Jean, Md. d'Estampes, rue St Jean de Beauvais No. 10""",,,Not on display,,,military,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.96",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.481",Gioco di tutti le monete di Bologna (Object),,,"Game board with forty positions representing either in kind or as a visual pun the different coins used in Bologna, each square marked for a different throw of the dice.  1692
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1692,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 294 millimetres; Width: 376 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the bottom, continued with the rules of the game in seven lines, and with comments by each of the squares; signed 'Mi I E Fece' in the bottom left.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,money/currency,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.481",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/5d073a17_8b44_4adf_a3a9_a3b5010754b3/preview_00141679_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.462.+",Zuogh dal cacciator (Object),,,"Game board marked with eleven different positions each with a scene of bird hunting, marked for a different throw of the dice.  1699
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1699,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 252 millimetres; Width: 432 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, continued with the rules of the game in two lines, and with descriptions of each hunting scene by each of the sections; signed 'Mio gioco Mitelli fe 1699' in the bottom right.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,hunting/shooting,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.462.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/691cb384_b632_4063_9786_a3b5010741c8/preview_00141672_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.480",Gioco dell'amata con gli amanti (Object),,,"Game board with a woman and her suitors, each position marked with a different throw of the dice. 1690
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 306 millimetres; Width: 445 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, continuing with the rules of the game in two lines in the lower margin; signed 'Mi I E F 1690' at the bottom left.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,marriage/wedding,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.480",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/609bb671_5f96_4952_bc25_a3b5010767c9/preview_00141686_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.459.+",Gioco nuovo del contento (Object),,,"Game board with 43 numbered positions, each named with an abstraction and with an appropriate image beside it
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 310 millimetres; Width: 443 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, followed in six lines with the rules of the game; signed 'Mitelli I E Fec' at the bottom right.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,allegory/personification,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.459.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/932cdf06_a1a8_44a1_a941_a3da009af445/preview_01136451_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.10",Gioco novo della ventura per ridere a chi vince (Object),,,"Game board with twenty oval positions, each labelled with a reference to proverbial wisdom and an appropriate image, and marked with a throw of the dice; sheet cut and pasted onto backing sheet. 1700
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1700,,,paper,,,etching,"Height: 221 millimetres; Width: 337 millimetres plate-mark ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper right in pen 'X'
Titled at top centre, and with the rules of the game in two lines along the bottom; signed 'Mitelli f' in the bottom right, and dated 1700 after the title.
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","For comment, see 1893,0331.1
For another impression of this print, see 1852,0602.479","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,proverb; sport/pastime,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.10",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/80831f2c_cf43_40ba_b25a_a3bb005ef7d6/preview_00305328_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.106",Nouveau Jeu des Cris de Paris (Object),,,"Game board with 44 numbered pictorial compartments arranged in a two concentric ovals, each representing one of the cries of Paris, with the cry above; the title and rules detailed in the centre; in the lower left corner, four children standing around a fire, a fifth jumping on it, a cottage to left, with a woman looking out through an open doorway, inscriped ""Sauter sur cette paille en feu, mes enfants pour vous c'est un jeu""; in the lower right corner a woman drawing liquid from a horse-drawn still (?), inscribed ""L'eau rince mieux le Cerveau, Que le jus de ramponneau""; in the upper right corner, ladies and gentlemen seated at tables outdoors with a band playing in the background under a gazebo, inscribed ""Le plaisir est à la guinguette On rit on chante on fait goguette""; in the upper right corner, a lady and a boy by the doorway to a house, with two men giving them two potted bushes in a carrying basket, inscribed ""Redoutez jeaune lison, le petit die fripon qui guette La rose et le bouton d'amourette""
Etching",Published by: Pierre Jean,,,,,,,1810-1832,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 480 millimetres; Width: 585 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title  and the rules in the centre, beneath the rules ""A Paris chez Jean Rue St. Jean de Beauvais No. 10""",,,Not on display,,,street-trader,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.106",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/8a26b3ee_41ab_4822_ae34_a3b501076a46/preview_00141687_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.457.+",Il nuovo gioco del tira e paga (Object),,,"Game board with eleven scenes showing different persons pulling or paying, each numbered and with explanatory description
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 295 millimetres; Width: 400 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled at the top, followed by the rules of the game in two lines; signed 'G M' on a bale in the square numbered 9.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.457.+",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/775e695d_37e6_406d_9c11_a3bb005efd11/preview_00305329_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.107",La geographie universelle... (Object),,,"Game board with 78 numbered compartments, each containing place names; two globes and rules and keys in the centre; a geographical trophy in each corner.  1780
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Jean Baptiste Crépy,,,,,,,1780,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 440 millimetres; Width: 556 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title  in a cartouche, reading ""LA/ GÉOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE/ ou/ la connoissance Exacte DE LA MAPPEMONDE..."" and rules in centre of the board; in lower margin of the board ""à Paris chez Crepy rue S. Jacques à S. Pierre prés la rue de la parcheminerie"" and to r ""Avec Privilege du Roi""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.107",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/eecd339c_33f5_4be8_b9a6_a3bb005fae5b/preview_00305603_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.115",La récréation Européenne ou jeu des princes de l'Europe (Object),,,"Game board with 61 circular numbered compartments arranged in a spiral, each containing a map of a state, with the state named beneath, the first being Spain and the last being France; in the centre the large final compartment containing a map of France, a map of Europe, beneath which, the royal coat of arms.  1770
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: Jean Baptiste Crépy;  Print made by: Maurille Antoine Moithey,,,,,,,1770,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 487 millimetres; Width: 620 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with the title on either side of the coat-of-arms, reading ""LA RÉCRÉATION EUROPÉENE/ ou jeu des princes de l'Europe/ Dedié et Présenté/ à Nosseigneurs les Enfans de France"", beneath which, on the left, ""Se vend à Paris chez Crepy rue S. Jacques prés/ la rue de la parcheminerie à S. Pierre"" and to right ""Par leur tres humble et tres obeissant/ serviteur Moithey Ing. / Geographe""; in the bottom margin ""On trouvera chez le Sr Crepy une Collection de Jeux adaptés à la Géographie, l'Histoire, et à l'Art Militaire, et autres propres à recréer et instruire la Jeunesse"" and to right, ""Avec Privilege du Roi""",,,Not on display,,,map/plan,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.115",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/0dc5a14c_d074_4814_95d3_a3bb005ec41a/preview_00305349_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.104",Le Jeu des nations principales... (Object),,,"Game board with 43 compartments, each showing a man and a woman a different country, with a few lines beneath detailing their principal characteristics, customs and costume; in the centre a dedication , the title and two globes, in three corners the rules.  1662
Hand-coloured etching with engraving",Published by: Antoine de Fer;  Print made by: Nicolas Cochin (?),,,,,,,1660,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured; engraving,"Height: 426 millimetres; Width: 560 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title and an explanation in the centre, followed by ""Recueilli de plusieurs Autheurs/ par Louis Richer delinea""; rules in top left, top right and lower right corner; in lower left corner ""A Paris/ Chés Antoine de Fer marchand/ de taille douce et enlumineur de/ Cartes geographiques demeurant/ en l'isle du palais sur le quay/ qui regarde la Mesgisserie a/ l'aage de fer et la sphere royal/ avec privilege du roy, 1662""; in lower left margin ""Cochin fecit"" and in lower right corner ""Le Febvre sculpt""","A range of educational goose-games (i.e. based on the principles of the Game of the Goose) were produced in French from the mid-seventeenth century. Primarily intended as didactic tools for children, many had geographical subjects and were sold by map-sellers like Antoine de Fer, the publisher of this complex game. France occupies the winning space of 43 countries, arranged by continent (America, Africa, Asia, Europe). Each depicts 'native' peoples and details their characteristics. Played like a traditional goose-game, a series of special rules associated with landing on particular 'places' are inscribed around the board - such as being 'kidnapped' by Turks and forced to pay a ransom on space 25.
Naomi Lebens",,Not on display,2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.104",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/af576373_c440_4dc2_9b9e_a3b501075cfb/preview_00141682_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.479",Gioco novo della ventura per ridere a chi vince (Object),,,"Game board with twenty oval positions, each labelled with a piece of proverbial wisdom and an appropriate image, and marked with a throw of the dice.  1700
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1700,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 221 millimetres; Width: 342 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled at top centre, and with the rules of the game in two lines along the bottom; signed 'Mitelli f' in the bottom right, and dated 1700 after the title.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.479",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/25041d84_2374_4d96_accf_a3b501075a88/preview_00141681_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.521",Gioco della speranza (Object),,,"Game board showing a tower with a man and birds at the top and Hope in a roundel below; four other men thow up their arms below.  1699
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1699,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 312 millimetres; Width: 215 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled on the tower, continuing with the rules of the game in ten lines, and with four lines in the bottom margin that identify the four men beneath the tower; signed 'Mitelli inv e fece 1699 in Bologna' in the lower left.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.521",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/c01aacbf_0afe_4595_a9fb_a3b501074c6b/preview_00141676_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.478","Gioco de Sig. Soldati  Spianta mondo, con le sue cariche e sopranomi (Object)",,,"Game board with nineteen small caricatural figures of soldiers in different poses, each marked with a different throw of the dice, while the twentieth position wins all.  1692
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1692,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 293 millimetres; Width: 388 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, and with comments under each of the figures in the scene; the rules of the game in one line along the bottom; signed 'Mi In E F' in the bottom right, and dated in the title.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,soldier,,,,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.478",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/7a27d446_0b62_4cb0_b8b7_a3bb005bb4c0/preview_00304385_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.42",Giuoco dell' Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered  compartments from 1 to 90  arranged in a spiral around a central panel, in which are detailed the rules; in each corner a goose in a compromising position. 
Lithograph",Published by: Lebrun-Boldetti & c.,,,,,,,1872 (after),,,paper,,,lithograph; hand-coloured,"Height: 401 millimetres printed area ; Width: 510 millimetres printed area ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In the central panel, the title and various instructions for playing the game and the publishers' address",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.42",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/b7132870_cb0a_4685_b2b5_a3b8012f49f1/preview_00321917_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,1015.6",Kunst und Glück (Object),,,"Game-board with 16 compartments, numbered from 3 - 18, numbers 3 to 16 showing literary characters arranged in a square, with two larger central compartments, showing Dlle Sonntag and Signor Paganini. Accompanied by a letterpress rule sheet in French and German
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,19thC,,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured; letterpress,"Height: 340 millimetres sheet ; Width: 421 millimetres sheet ",,,,Not on display,,,turquerie,"Representation of: Henriette Sontag, Countess Rossi;  Representation of: Niccolò Paganini",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,1015.6",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/93dcfa92_7dd9_46f7_9027_a3bb005e281b/preview_00305145_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.93",Le Jeu de Paris en Miniature (Object),,,"Game board with 90 numbered pictorial compartments, each depicting a shop sign in Paris, with a literal interpretation of its name, a description of what it sells and its address; the winning square is 'Au Retour d'Astrée'; in the centre the rules.  1815
Etching",Published by: Veuve Chéreau,,,,,,,1815,,,paper,,,etching; letterpress,Height: 468 millimetres; Width: 630 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: The title at top of the central panel, followed by ""Dans lequel sont représentés les Enseignes, Decors, Magasins, Boutiques et divers Etablissements des principaux Marchands de Paris, leurs Rues et numeros"", followed by the rules in 15 lines.  To left, ""Propriétaire et Editeur Mde Vve Chereau Rue St Jacques No. 10"" and to right ""Deposé à la Direction Génerale de l'imprimerie et de la Librairs. [sic]""",,,Not on display,,,shop,,Associated with: Paris,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.93",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/04f42f91_1deb_40ac_8e28_a3bb005a6cc4/preview_00304124_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.84",Jagd-Spiel (Object),,,"Game-board in an octagonal shape with circular compartments numbered from 1 to 63 arranged in a spiral, some bearing pictures of hunters, hounds, etc.; in the top left corner, a stag, in the top right corner a gun leaning up against a tree and a hunting horn; in the bottom two corners, hunters; in the centre a man on a horse, shooting at a stag; instructions beneath the board.
Hand-coloured lithograph",Published by: Johann Raab,,,,,,,19thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,lithograph; hand-coloured,"Height: 330 millimetres approx ; Width: 276 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title in the centre and the rules in 8 lines beneath; along the bottom to right ""Nürnberg bei Joh. Raab""",,,Not on display,,,hunting/shooting,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.84",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/a05ea387_e256_43aa_abe7_a3bb005acb68/preview_00304157_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.86",Belagerungs Spiel (Object),,,"Circular game-board with 84 numbered compartments, some of them illustrated with various military objects, including cannons and soldiers, arranged in a spiral with a citadel in the centre.  Accompanied by a printed sheet detailing the rules.
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: P J Döring,,,,,,,19thC(early),Published in: Frankfurt am Main,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured; letterpress,"Height: 360 millimetres approx; trimmed? ; Height: 182 millimetres page ; Width: 375 millimetres approx ; Width: 113 millimetres page ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: lettered with the title in top left corner and to right "" bei P J Döring in Frankfurt a/m""",,,Not on display,,,military,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.86",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/e3dc050d_d593_4118_9c7f_a3bb005ac89c/preview_00304156_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.85",Das englische Pferderennen (Object),,,"Circular game-board with 47 compartments, each coloured differently, 5 of them depicting horses racing; in the centre, the 5 winning horses and a group of men under a marquee; horses in each corner of the board, with the title and rules beneath.
Hand-coloured etching",Published by: G.N. Renner,,,,,,,19thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 345 millimetres approx ; Width: 290 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: To the bottom left of the board ""Nürnberg im Verlag von G.N. Renners Kunsthandlung"", beneath the board the title in two lines, the rules in 6 lines",,,Not on display,,,horse-racing,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.85",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/7_20/5cff472d_cecb_4432_96cd_a3dc014da2ac/preview_01321746_001.jpg,print; popular print; game-board,"No: 2012,7020.34",Robinson-Spiel. (Object),,,"Circular game-board with fifty numbered fields for cutting out, featuring the story of Robinson Crusoe at centre, in unnumbered fields and in the four corners; No.1609 from a series. 
Stencil-printed lithograph, with additional hand-colouring",Print made by: Anonymous;  Printed by: C Burckardt;  Published by: C Burckardt,,,,,,,1850-1899,Published in: Wissembourg,,paper,,,lithograph; stencil printing; hand-coloured,"Height: 435 millimetres sheet ; Width: 338 millimetres sheet ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Fields numbered; numbered at top right corner of sheet 'No. 1609.' and lettered below board with the title, rules of the game, 'Deponirt', and publication detail: 'Druck u. Verlag v. C. Burckardt's Nachf. Weissenburg (Elsass.)'",Published in the period when Elsass was part of Germany.,,Not on display,,,black,Illustration to: Daniel Defoe,,,Robinson Crusoe,Purchased from: Dietrich Hecht,,,,2012,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2012,7020.34",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/85893a4f_db26_4f0e_be62_a3bb005c231d/preview_00304532_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.130",A New Game: Russia versus Turkey (Object),,,"Folding game-board with 55 numbered compartments (numbered both forwards and in reverse) arranged in two rough spirals of water, each emanating from a port - the Turkish port on the left and the Russian on the right, with ships, harbours, forts and sandbanks; the two spirals joining in the centre where the board folds; the whole within two conjoining hexagonal rope frames; on the cover, a picture of ships within a rope frame and with the title; two ribbons to tie it shut; an insert on blue paper detailing the rules in seven steps.
Hand-coloured etching on the board; wood-engraving with letterpress on the insert",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1875-1895 (circa),Printed in: Paris (France),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured; wood-engraving; letterpress,"Height: 304 millimetres board ; Height: 140 millimetres insert ; Width: 476 millimetres board ; Width: 169 millimetres insert ",,,,Not on display,,,naval,,Associated with: Russia;  Associated with: Turkey,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.130",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/861c6fbc_75d7_4bad_a978_a3bb005a76c4/preview_00304127_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.80",Lustiges Braut und Bräutigams oder Verheÿrathungs Spiel (Object),,,"Circular game-board with two concentric rings, each divided into 9 compartments, each containing a potential bride or bridegroom; those in the outer ring also bearing two faces of a dice; in the centre a couple being joined at the altar, a cupid blessing them; in the left corners, bridegrooms holding papers bearing their titles and ranks; in the right corners, brides holding papers bearing their dowries; the title and the rules at top.
Etching",Published by: Johann Raab,,,,,,,18thC(late),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching,Height: 336 millimetres; Width: 411 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and the rules in 4 lines beneath; in the central panel ""Im Verlag bey Joh. Raab. / in Nürnberg""",,,Not on display,,,marriage/wedding,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.80",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/9bd25531_cd65_429e_a734_a3bb005f09cf/preview_00305333_001.jpg,print; game-board; map,"No: 1893,0331.109",L'Historiographie du royaume de France (Object),,,"Game board with numbered compartments from 1 to 108 arranged in a spiral, the more elaborate compartments bearing a cartouche with the name of a region in France, beneath which are listed its principal industries, the subsequent compartments containing lists of its principal cities and towns, with a key to their status, the final compartment being Paris, surmounted by a portrait medaillion of Louis XV.  In the centre, a map of France, showing all the towns mentioned in the game, above which is the title and a description of the map; to the left of the map, the rules, to the right, a description of the ""Air, Sol, Peuples, et Villes"" of France, the longitudes and latitudes of the principal towns, and a key.
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1744-1768,Printed in: Paris (France),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 435 millimetres approx ; Width: 554 millimetres approx ",Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Title and rules in central panel,,,Not on display,,,map/plan,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.109",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/12060865_cbac_4d81_8c8e_a3bb005a63ae/preview_00304121_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.87",Musical Toy (Object),,,"Circular game-board with lines of musical notation, divided into 12 segments, with scales in the centre. 1811
Etching",Published by: John Hatchard;  Published by: John Harris,,,,,,,1811,Printed in: Paris (France),,paper,,,etching; wood-engraving; letterpress,Height: 371 millimetres; Width: 367 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Along bottom edge ""Published for E. Sanders, by Ha[r]ris, corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, & Hatchard, Piccadilly, May 1811"".",,,Not on display,,,music,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.87",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/d0d2ae1a_1dd2_4015_8b47_a3b8012e1438/preview_00321676_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,1015.8",Der blinde Passagier und seine Gefährten (Object),,,"Gameboard with 13 compartments arranged in a circle, in the centre an image of a blind man holding a bird, the others compartments each containing the image of a man and a title in German; the sheet backed on to another, pink, sheet. In a blue slip case with title on a pink label, and with a folded sheet of rules (letterpress text  in German and French)
Hand-coloured etching; letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1780-1820,Published in: Frankfurt am Main,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Diameter: 327 millimetres printed surface ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Game-board lettered with descriptions of characters represented.
Label on slip case printed in letterpress with with title in German and French.",,,Not on display,,,disabled,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,1015.8",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/c15f4c9c_1fc1_4a95_9318_a3ba01684298/preview_00265796_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.30",Il nuovo gioco del tira e paga (Object),,,"Game board with eleven scenes showing different persons pulling or paying, each numbered and with explanatory description
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690-1718,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 298 millimetres; Width: 408 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled at the top, followed by the rules of the game in two lines; signed 'G M' on a bale in the square numbered 9.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.30",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/5c0182e3_ace0_4eb3_a097_a3b80132be0f/preview_00322878_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.124",Science in Sport or the Pleasures of Natural Philosophy (Object),,,"Octagonal game-board with 35 numbered pictorial compartments, each representing a scientific instrument, experiment or phenomenon, with the Niagara Falls in the centre and portraits of Descartes, Bacon, Boyle and Franklin. Kept in a contemporary slip case.  1805

Hand-coloured etching backed on linen.",Published by: John Wallis,,,,,,,1805,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,etching,Height: 554 millimetres; Width: 524 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and publication details at bottom: ""Published December 17th 1805 by the Proprietor, John Wallis, No. 13 Warwick Square London______ of whom may be had/ Science of Sport or the Pleasures of Astronomy, an Entertaining Game"".","This game appears to have been put in the wrong slip case, as the label on the present one is for its sister game 'Science in Sport or the Pleasures of Astronomy'.  However, it has the correct title in manuscript on the back of the case",,Not on display,,,science/technology,"Representation of: René Descartes;  Representation of: Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans;  Representation of: Benjamin Franklin;  Representation of: Robert Boyle",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.124",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/833b0071_29db_43ac_b840_a3ba0167aa0a/preview_00265753_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.27",Zugh di tutti i zugh (Object),,,"Game board with twenty-four squares each showing a different game; each is marked with a name and a throw of the dice.  1702
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1702,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 277 millimetres; Width: 400 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled in centre, and with the rules of the game in three lines along the bottom; signed 'Mi Fe' in the bottom right, and dated 1702 in the centre.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,sport/pastime,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.27",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/934bd4d8_2624_4558_a2fd_a3ba01679b03/preview_00265746_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.24",Signora Gola tira tutt (Object),,,"Game board showing a table with a feast at which men and women are gorging themselves; each person is marked with a name and a throw of the dice.  1699
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1699,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 260 millimetres; Width: 442 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled at top centre, and with the rules of the game in five lines along the table cloth; signed 'Mitelli I F 1699 Bolog' in the bottom right.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,eating/drinking,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.24",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/f92f5fe6_ae0c_46e7_860e_a3ba016764dd/preview_00265720_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.21","Gioco de Sig. Soldati  Spianta mondo, con le sue cariche e sopranomi (Object)",,,"Game board with nineteen small caricatural figures of soldiers in different poses, each marked with a different throw of the dice, while the twentieth position wins all.  1692
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1692,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 293 millimetres; Width: 388 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, and with comments under each of the figures in the scene; the rules of the game in one line along the bottom; signed 'Mi In E F' in the bottom right, and dated in the title.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,soldier,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.21",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/e150ea88_7d3e_4266_a2cb_a3bb005c0008/preview_00304416_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.48",Il Novo et Vero Gioco dil'Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 63 in a spiral; in the centre, a goose on an archway
Woodcut",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC,Published in: Modena (city),,paper,,,woodcut,Height: 490 millimetres; Width: 368 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Along the top, lettered with the title, at bottom ""In Modena per Bartolomeo Solian (?)""",Printed from an old block and stamped with the catalogue (?) number 1890,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.48",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/220a1043_ac52_444f_8494_a3b80132a7e7/preview_00322869_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.120",Game of the Star-spangled Banner: or Emigrants to the United States (Object),,,"Game-board with the states of the east coast of the United States with 147 numbered  monuments, landmarks and wildlife in slip-case both covered with embossed buckram. 
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching backed on linen.",Published by: Edward Wallis,,,,,,,1833 (c),Published in: London (England),,paper,,,aquatint; hand-coloured; etching,Height: 669 millimetres; Width: 499 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title on a rock, in front of which stands a man with a bow and arrow wearing a bearskin and feathers and lettered with publication details at bottom"" E. Wallis, Skinner Street, London/ Entd. at Stationers Hall""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.120",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.125",The New Game of Human Life (Object),,,"Game-board with 84 pictorial compartments each depicting a stage in life or a arranged in a spiral, each representing the character of a man at a particular age, from 1 to 84. The rules in the centre and the corners.  1790
Hand-coloured etching, cut into 12 sections and pasted onto a cloth backing",Published by: John Wallis,,,,,,,1790,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 467 millimetres; Width: 682 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: At bottom, to right, in centre ""Published according to th |Act of Parliament July 14 1790 by/ John Wallis No. 16, Ludgate Street, and E. Newbery, the/  Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard/ Entered at Stationer's Hall""",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.125",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/5_9/baf1d9f6_7dec_498c_8fd3_a3da009a0269/preview_01136074_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.7","Il gioco importantissimo del fornaro banco, che mai falische (Object)",,,"Game board with twenty compartments showing different characters and their associated profession, each numbered and with explanation
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1692,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,"Height: 285 millimetres; Width: 377 millimetres plate-mark ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Numbered upper right in pen 'VII'
The rules of the game in eight lines in the first compartment; dated below the rules '1692'' 
Charlotte Schreiber stamp on the back","For comment, see 1893,0331.1
For other impressions, see 1893,0331.30 and 1853,0612.457*","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,trade/occupation,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.7",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/6d0fb2d4_c6e7_41ce_99bc_a3ba01677a8b/preview_00265732_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.23",Gioco de mestieri a chi va bene e a chi va male (Object),,,"Game board with twenty squares showing different trades and their fortunes, each square marked for a different throw of the dice.  1698
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1698,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 322 millimetres; Width: 434 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top, continued with the rules of the game in two lines, and with descriptions of each trade by each of the squares; signed 'Mitelli in e fece 1698' in the bottom right.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,trade/occupation,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.23",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_14/36be1d6c_f5f2_4804_bdc5_a3b700e91049/preview_00071780_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.17",Gioco della pontica assediata da smaniosi gatti (Object),,,"Game board with a castle of mice besieged by an army of cats, each position marked with a different throw of the dice. 1690
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1690,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 294 millimetres; Width: 441 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled in the centre, with the rules of the game in five lines at the top followed by 'Mi E F'. Dated 1690 bottom centre.",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.17",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/fd6f2af7_b603_4482_8b57_a3bb005b8a72/preview_00304425_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.52",Giuoco dell' Oca (Object),,,"Game board with numbered pictorial compartments from 1 to 90 in a spiral, in the centre are detailed the rules of the game, around the board, various characters, including Harlequin and numerous men in devil costumes
colour lithograph",Published by: G Gussoni,,,,,,,19thC(late),Published in: Milan (city),,paper,,,lithograph; colour; letterpress,Height: 392 millimetres; Width: 504 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: In lower left corner of board ""G. Gussoni via Falcone No. 1 Milano""; in the centre, the title and rules of the game.",,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.52",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/29_15/fcdadc3d_9b96_4dc0_ba41_a3b5010746fd/preview_00141674_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1852,0612.486",Al zuogh d'la città di Bulogna (Object),,,"Game board with the walls and gates, with the major buildings of Bologna, each marked with a different throw of the dice.  1691
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1691,,,paper,,,etching,Height: 316 millimetres; Width: 451 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled above a panel with the rules of the game in five lines; each position marked with notes on the topography; signed 'Mi I E F 1691' at the bottom right.,,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,Topographic representation of: Bologna (city),,,Purchased from: William Monck Mason; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 13-19.iii.1852),,,,1852,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1852,0612.486",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/15_21/5e1bd28e_8325_43c6_bf8c_a3c50163b8d8/preview_00968955_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.127",Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England (Object),,,"Circular game-board with 159 numbered pictorial compartments, each representing an historical event or person, from 1066 until the reign of George III. Acompanied by a 47 page rule booklet  and kept in a board slip-case bearing a printed label.  1803

Hand-coloured etching backed on linen.",Published by: John Harris,,,,,,,1803,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 562 millimetres; Width: 512 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and publication details at bottom,,,Not on display,,,education,"Associated with: George III, King of the United Kingdom",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.127",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/539b672e_8ab8_4fd9_8c5d_a3bb005c2048/preview_00304531_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.141",Neues Bilder Lotterie Spiel (Object),,,"Game-board with 80 pictorial compartments, arranged in 8 rows of 10, depicting flowers, animals characters and various objects, with instructions beneath
Woodcut with letterpress",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,19thC(early),Printed in: Paris (France),,paper,,,woodcut; letterpress,Height: 345 millimetres approx ; Width: 277 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: illegible,,,Not on display,,,flower; animal,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.141",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/edbfe1bf_3624_48d7_ac3f_a3ba01682a30/preview_00265789_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.13",Il novo gioco degli asini ... (Object),,,"Game board with three riders on asses, one of whom eats, another drinks and the third defecates; one rider holds a card with 'Noi siamo sette'  and two dice. 1687
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1687,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 240 millimetres; Width: 405 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top in three lines, continuing with the rules of the game; signed in lower left 'G M Mittelli In e Fe 1687' in lower left corner","For other examples of the popular ""We are Seven"" iconography, see Curatorial Comment for S.3800.","Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.13",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/e2c63661_f5ca_42b5_b2c1_a3bb005ca72d/preview_00304747_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.63",Il Vero Giuoco della Barca (Object),,,"Game board with a boat with two sailors, within a ring bearing numbers interspersed with animals, putti in the top two corners of the board and bathers in the bottom two and the instructions in letterpress beneath
colour lithograph with letterpress",Print made by: G Gussoni,,,,,,,19thC(late),,,paper,,,lithograph; letterpress; colour,Height: 379 millimetres; Width: 277 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along top and publishers' details along the bottom,,,Not on display,,,animal; boat/ship,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.63",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/6e5ca749_868a_4715_bd72_a3b8013070cd/preview_00322267_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,1122.1",Der Bergbau (Object),,,"Game-board showing a cross-section of a mine and the network of tunnels leading down from 6 buildings, along the tunnels, various numbers which represent ore.  Accompanied by 5 of an original 6 tokens in the form of miners, a rule sheet and an oblong box in which are small squares of glass, possibly originally used as counters. Kept in an embossed box with gold margins and bearing a printed label with an illustration of a mine and the title in German, and beneath the lower margin, in French and English.
Hand-coloured lithograph, pasted onto marbled board.",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,19thC(mid),Published in: London (England),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 287 millimetres board ; Width: 390 millimetres board ",,,,Not on display,,,mining/quarrying,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,1122.1",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.9",,,,"First World War untitled race boardgame; game-board, no rules, dice or pieces.  1914-18
Colour lithograph in blue, red, yellow and black",Published by: J W Spear and Sons,,,,,,,1914-1818,Published in: Nuremberg,,paper; cardboard,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 286; Width: 423,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with publisher's name and details: ""Verlag von J.W. SPEAR & SOHNE.Nurnberg - Doo5"", and other lettering with numbers and various place names",,,Not on display,,,war,,,Associated Event: First World War,,Donated by: Petra Gesche,,,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.9",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/d56565da_5427_4d63_8a79_a3bb005a8b0a/preview_00304134_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.11",A.R.P.(The New War-Time Game For All) (Object),,,"Boardgame entitled A.R.P. (The New War-Time Game for All),  race game connected to the Second World War; game-board only, with rules attached.  1940s
Process print in yellow, green, blue, red and black",Published by: Waddy Productions,,,,,,,1940s,Published in: British Isles,,paper; cardboard,,,photomechanical print; colour,Height: 287 millimetres; Width: 287 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with game information, and name of manufacturer ""Waddy""
Verso, slip of paper with title and rules pasted",,,Not on display,,,war,,,Associated Event: Second World War,,Purchased from: A E Mason,Funded by: British Museum Friends (Board Games Running Fund),,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.11",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/108c6f23_267b_49fe_a769_a3bb005a961a/preview_00304139_001.jpg,print; game-board; game-piece,"No: 2004,1231.3",Aerial Combat (Object),,,"Cardboard race game connected with the Second World War, including game-board, rules (cut from original box), fourteen pieces and spinner. c.1940
Colour lithograph in green, yellow, black and red, with red back",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1940s,,,paper,,,colour; lithograph,"Height: 522 millimetres board ; Width: 313 millimetres board ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered on back of rules with title and ""A Game of Chance & Skill/ Exciting/ Thrilling"", and with other lettering on board and spinner",,,Not on display,,,war; aircraft,,,Associated Event: Second World War,,Purchased from: A E Mason,Funded by: British Museum Friends (Board Games Running Fund),,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.3",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/b1c7ffe5_9453_4dc3_9ec9_a3bb005abd7f/preview_00304152_001.jpg,print; game-board; map,"No: 2004,1231.14",Israel (Object),,,"Board-game featuring 70 squares illustrating scenes from Jewish history leading to a map of Israel in the centre; game-board, no dice or pieces.  1950s
Colour lithograph in blue, red, yellow, pink, green and black",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1950s,Published in: Israel (assumed),,paper; pasteboard,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 496 millimetres; Width: 344 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title and other game information (in Hebrew),,,Not on display,,,jewish,,Topographic representation of: Israel,,,Purchased from: S Breuer,Funded by: British Museum Friends (Board Games Running Fund),,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.14",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 2006,0119,0.1",Shin'an Meiji fujin sugoroku (Object),,,"Colour lithograph. New Year Supplement to the magazine 'Fujin sekai, vol.5, no.1'. Board game illustrating the occupations and life events of modern young women. Signed.",Print artist: Kimoto Gensei,,,,,,Meiji Era,1 January 1910,Made in: Japan,,paper,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 54.70 centimetres; Width: 78.70 centimetres,Inscription type: signature Inscription position: top left Inscription language: Japanese Inscription transliteration: Kimoto Gensei ga Inscription note: printed,,,Not on display,,,,,,Associated Event: New Year,,Purchased from: Kato Kyobundo,Funded by: Brooke Sewell Bequest,,,2006,,,Asia,,"2006,0119,0.1",,,
,print; game-board; map,"No: 2004,1231.13",The Land of Israel (Object),,,"Board-game featuring a map of Israel, the cities connected by a race route with markers; game-board, no dice or pieces.  1950s 
Colour lithograph in orange, red, blue, green and black",Published by: Abiba,,,,,,,1950s,Published in: Israel,,paper,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 679 millimetres; Width: 245 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title, place names and other game information (in Hebrew)",,,Not on display,,,war; jewish,,Topographic representation of: Israel,,,Purchased from: S Breuer,Funded by: British Museum Friends (Board Games Running Fund),,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.13",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/c3172a51_eb05_404a_934a_a3bb005a9016/preview_00304136_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 2004,1231.12",Bomber Command (Object),,,"Race game connected to the Second World War; game-board, with rules, and original envelope (also lettered with rules) with five pieces enclosed (two red and three blue); dice missing.  1940s
Colour lithograph in blue, green, yellow, orange, red and black",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,1940s,Published in: British Isles (assumed),,paper; cardboard,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 325 millimetres; Width: 355 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered on front with title: ""Bomber Command/ A Game for all ages"", on the game numbers and other information, and on the verso with rules",,,Not on display,,,war,,,Associated Event: Second World War,,Purchased from: A E Mason,Funded by: British Museum Friends (Board Games Running Fund),,,2004,,,Prints and Drawings,,"2004,1231.12",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/4_21/0e5fa066_a745_42ae_ae6d_a3ba01675208/preview_00265714_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.14",Il gioco della verità (Object),,,"Game board with six scenes, each of which corresponds to a different throw of a die; five show fashionable wastrels, the sixth a hard-working family (which is the winning throw). 1688
Etching",Print made by: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli,,,,,,,1688,Published in: Bologna (city),,paper,,,etching,Height: 300 millimetres; Width: 403 millimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Titled along the top in eight lines, continuing with the rules of the game; signed br 'Mittelli I e F 1688'",,"Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico",Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (L.534),,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.14",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/2_18/6638b0bf_5616_47f1_8509_a3b80132b41d/preview_00322873_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.122",An Interesting Jubilee Game (Object),,,"Circular game-board with 150 numbered pictorial compartments, each representing an historical event or birth in the reign of George III, commencing with his proclamation and ending with his golden jubilee. Acompanied by a 54 page rule booklet  and kept in a board slip-case bearing a printed label.  1810

Hand-coloured etching backed on linen.",Published by: John Harris,,,,,,,1804,Published in: London (England),,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,Height: 554 millimetres; Width: 524 millimetres,Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title at top and publication details at bottom,,,Not on display,,,education,"Associated with: George III, King of the United Kingdom",,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.122",,,
,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.135",,,,"A wooden box with an etching showing the interior of an artist's studio, with an artist sitting at his easel and a lady and gentleman standing behind his chair and looking at his painting; the canvas of the easel is an aperture, through which can be seen various small scenes on a revolving disc, these correspond to the images on four double-sided squares of wood and include a scene in a garden, two birds, a portrait of a lady, a stag-hunting scene in the snow, some ships, a still-life, some fruit and a landscape.  Acompanied with a wooden box in which one of the pieces of wood can fit.
Etchings, hand-coloured, varnished and pasted on wood",Print made by: Anonymous,,,,,,,18thC(late),Printed in: Nuremberg,,paper; wood,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 110 millimetres print on box ; Height: 100 millimetres print on cards ; Width: 118 millimetres print on box ; Width: 108 millimetres print on cards ",,,,Not on display,,,artist studio; fruit; bird,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.135",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_5/036409f1_5b12_4997_add7_a3bb005a5b4a/preview_00304118_001.jpg,print; game-board,"No: 1893,0331.76",Ring Würfel Spiel mit Menschen und Thieren (Object),,,"Game board resembling a roulette wheel, with one circle comprising compartments containing men and women, each with 'N' or 'B' followed by a number and three faces of a die beneath; a second inner ring comprising birds and animals  each with 'N' or 'B' followed by a number and three faces of a die beneath; in the centre a man sitting at a table, on which there are two dice, shaking hands with another man wearing a hat.
Hand-coloured etching",Print made by: Johann Trautner,,,,,,,18thC(early),Published in: Nuremberg,,paper,,,etching; hand-coloured,"Height: 340 millimetres approx ; Width: 289 millimetres approx ","Inscription type: inscription Inscription quoted: Lettered with title along the top and the rules in 4 lines beneath the board. In lower left corner ""No. 109, in lower right corner ""Joh Trautner exc Nor""",,,Not on display,,,animal; bird,,,,,Donated by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber,,,,1893,,,Prints and Drawings,,"1893,0331.76",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_7/bf1e87f5_6e8d_4b35_a501_a3b700782c2b/preview_00035853_001.jpg,relief; game-board,No: EA67153,,,,"Limestone slab with part of a relief: a limestone slab bearing elements from a scene of the Sed-festival, carved in low relief. The figure of the king is shown twice on the right-hand side, clad in the short robe, wearing the red crown and holding a flail in the left hand and the ḥts in the right. In front of the leading figure is a baboon seated on a pedestal, and the remains of four birds. The reverse side of the slab is divided into a grid of 1.6cm squares. Parts of the surface of the stone have flaked off, but the piece is generally in good condition.",,,,,,,Early Dynastic (Egypt),,,Found/Acquired: Saqqara (Memphis),limestone,,,,Height: 24.30 centimetres; Thickness: 4.10 centimetres; Width: 39.50 centimetres,"Inscription type: inscription Inscription position: front surface Inscription script: hieroglyphic Inscription transliteration: m, ʒ, Ḥr Inscription note: Carved in low relief. The fourth sign is uncertain. 4 apparently disconnected signs.","The slab was found re-used in the wall of a Third Dynasty tomb shaft, which had been cut into tomb 3507. 
The birds are identifiable as the hieroglyphs m, ʒ, Ḥr and one uncertain. Their significance is not clear, but the piece may be unfinished. 
Bibliography:
W. B. Emery, 'Great tombs of the First Dynasty; excavations at Sakkara' III' (London, 1958), 84 and pls. 97-8;
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' III, pt. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press) , 447;
for the baboon in connection with the Sed-festival, cf. C. M. Firth and J. E. Quibell, 'Excavations at Saqqara : the Step pyramid' II (Cairo, 1935), pl. 16;
A. J. Spencer, 'Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum' V, Early Dynastic Objects (London, 1980), 16 [16], pl. 8, 9;
N. Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, London 2006, pp. 40-1.",Spencer 1980 / Early Dynastic Objects; Strudwick 2006 / Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt,On display (G64/dc10),,fair (incomplete),,,,,,Donated by: Egypt Exploration Society,,,,1969,,,Egypt and Sudan,EA67153,"1969,0212.16",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_9/30_15/6a7ff9b3_3169_423b_8ca6_a3b600f96541/preview_00017198_001.jpg,sculpture; game-board,"No: 118809,b",,,,"Carved gypsum sculpture of protective spirit facing right: a winged bull from a gateway in the citadel wall at Khorsabad, with panels showing a winged divine figure about to anoint with a 'cone' and magical fluid from a bucket. It is one of a pair, which were intended to keep evil from entering; a gameboard is incised between the bull's hooves.",,,,Sargon II,,,Neo-Assyrian,710BC-705BC,,Excavated/Findspot: Khorsabad,gypsum,,,carved,Height: 442 centimetres; Length: 447 centimetres,,"A pair with 1850,1228.3. Part B belongs behind part A; part B changed number from 118808B in 1968 after move from Transept to Entrance. As at present arranged the panels are wrongly placed; they should be behind the bulls, facing the tail, not at the side, facing the bull's front. See Gadd, 'Stones of Assyria', p. 110, as to the original position.","Smith 1938d / Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum from Shalmaneser III to Sennacherib; Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions",On display (G10c),,,mammal,Named in inscription: Sennacherib,,,,Purchased from: Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson,,,,1850,"Register entry transcribed from General Register of Antiquities in MLA which states that the objects were erroneously entered as Layard's, they were instead purchased from Colonel Rawlinson in the same bill with the colossal bulls from Khorsabad, to which they originally belonged.",,Middle East,"118809,b","1850,1228.4",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/11_11/ab08fb43_dd07_4afb_8777_a3e000bc9df2/preview_01582754_001.jpg,seat; game-board,"No: Af1984,14.359",,,,"Seat, game board made of wood.",,,,,Bezanozano,,,,,Found/Acquired: Antanandava,wood,,,,Height: 9.40 centimetres; Width: 33 centimetres; Depth: 15.20 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Dr B John Mack,1984,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1984,14.359",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/9_14/b5d1ed76_7373_4f01_92be_a3de00ee609b/preview_01435135_001.jpg,spoon-rack; game-board,"No: As1898,0703.743",,,,"Spoon rack (?), game board (?) made of wood, iron.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sri Lanka,wood; iron,,,,Height: 71.10 centimetres; Weight: 865 grammes; Width: 12.10 centimetres; Depth: 6 centimetres,,"Original no. ""98,7-3.70a""; added to Nevill continuation as no.743 by CDMS staff in 1982.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Hugh Nevill,,,,1898,,,Asia,,"As1898,0703.743","Miscellaneous number: As1898,0703.70a (original Nevill Register no.)",,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/15_12/5a73c59a_6e6d_433b_ab58_a3c500cc7c4a/preview_00939142_001.jpg,stool; warri-board,"No: Af1954,+23.3217",,,,"Stool; carved of wood; stool with rectangular base, top carved in shape of warri-board with two rows of six circles, with extra circle at each end; pedestal carved in form of circle with ridge of triangles down outside edges, rectangular pillar vertically across centre of circle.",,,,,Asante,,,,,Found/Acquired: Ghana,wood,,,carved,Height: 21.50 centimetres; Width: 63.50 centimetres; Depth: 15 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.3217",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 16065 (Wellcome Collection Number); Previous owner/ex-collection number: 46125 (Wellcome Collection Number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/10_22/c70055b9_202c_45cd_8562_a3df0174f5f2/preview_01557933_001.jpg,stopper; cribbage-board,"No: Am1987,09.3.f",,,,"Cavity lid (for cribbage-board 3.a);  carved of ivory; rectangular length of ivory with raised lip at one end, carved to slide into slot on board.",Made by: Ematulu Saggiak,,,,Inuit,,,,,Found/Acquired: Cape Dorset,ivory,,,carved,Height: 4 centimetres; Width: 1.50 centimetres; Depth: 0.50 centimetres,,"Part of Am1987,09.03.a",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 24 Aug-22 Sep, Harlow Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1991 28 Sep-27 Oct, Bedford Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1991 2 Nov-1 Dec, Braintree Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1991 7 Dec-1992 5 Jan, Aylesbury Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1992 11 Jan-9 Feb, Chichester Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1992 21 Mar-19 Apr, Gosport Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1992 30 May-28 Jun, Newbury Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North",,,,,,,Purchased from: West Baffin Co-operative,,,,1987,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1987,09.3.f",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2021_4/27_15/0d7b4066_f285_40b3_9f70_ad1700f854ba/preview_2010_3006_1.jpg,sugoroku; game-board; print,"No: 2010,3006.1",Shin Tōkyō meisho-meguri kyōsō sugoroku (Object),,,"Colour lithograph, sugoroku game-board, supplement to the magazine 'King' vol. 1, no. 1.",,,,,,,Taisho Era,1 January 1925,Published in: Tokyo-to,,paper,,,lithograph; colour,Height: 54.50 centimetres; Width: 79 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Shinsendo Shoten 秦川堂書店,Funded by: Brooke Sewell Bequest,,,2010,,,Asia,,"2010,3006.1",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/1_16/bc837979_13da_49f9_8841_a3b7010d9c6d/preview_00085118_001.jpg,warri-board,"No: Af1958,13.12",,,,"Warri-board; carved of wood; rectangular board carved with twelve round cavities, with triangle carved at each short end of rectangle that slopes slightly upward; two pieces of wood on underside of board for stand, joined together with dowel with round knob on each end; quadruped (pig?) carved between legs of stand; side of board carved with diamond pattern.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood,,,carved,Height: 23 centimetres; Width: 54.50 centimetres; Depth: 21 centimetres,,"In set with Af1958,13.13",,On display (G25/dc12),"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Mrs M Addison,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Lt William Addison,1958,"Register 1958:
Given in memory of and at the wish of the donor's husband, Lieut. William Addison, Senior District Commissioner, Sierra Leone, who formed the collection.",,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1958,13.12",,,
,warri-board,"No: Af1954,+23.2923",,,,"Warri board, made of wood (?).",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Uganda,wood,,,,Height: 7.20 centimetres; Width: 62.50 centimetres; Depth: 32 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.2923",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_6/5d6a6ae4_ae75_462a_9e0c_a3bb0063a6ec/preview_00306924_001.jpg,warri-board,"No: Am1996,17.2",,,,"Warri-board; carved of wood; rectangle of wood, carved with twelve (two rows of six) square, flat-bottomed holes.",,,,,,,,1940s,Made in: Speightstown,,wood,,,carved,Length: 18.50 centimetres; Width: 63.50 centimetres; Depth: 4 centimetres,,"""Warri, probably derived from West African games, is played on a two-row board. In the Caribbean it is played in Barbados by a dwindling number of competitors in suburban Bridgetown, Speightstown and in rural communities along the west coast. However, it thrives in Antigua, through the flourishing and dynamic National Warri Association."" See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Alexander J. de Voogt,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,"Previous owner/ex-collection: Benjamin ""Benny"" White",1996,Cost for entire collection.,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1996,17.2",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/14_21/cd4fc067_5517_460d_92f2_a3c4016809ba/preview_00905889_001.jpg,warri-board,"No: Af1954,+23.2931",,,,"Warri-board; carved of wood; board carved with two rows of six circular cavities, and a triangular cavity at each end of rows; hole in centre leading to cavity for storing counters (cavity missing).",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood,,,carved,Height: 6 centimetres; Width: 71.50 centimetres; Depth: 13 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.2931",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 126443 (Wellcome number),,
,warri-board,"No: Af1962,17.78",,,,Warri-board; carved from wood.,,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Uganda;  Found/Acquired: Nigeria (?),wood,,,carved,Height: 3.50 centimetres; Width: 46.30 centimetres; Depth: 27.60 centimetres,,"From acquisition ""warri"".
Register addition ""Uganda"" From acquisition ""Nigeria"".",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1991 BM, G88, 'Board Games around the world'
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Purchased from: Church Missionary Society,,,,1962,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1962,17.78",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/14_21/77ebc573_cd63_4f61_8ea3_a3c401681d86/preview_00905902_001.jpg,warri-board,"No: Af1954,+23.2934",,,,"Warri board; carved of wood; rectangular base with open-work geometric and floral carving on long sides; on top of base are two rows of six circular cavities, with band of raised knobs separating the two rows; circular cavity extends out from each short side of base.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood,,,carved,Height: 17 centimetres; Width: 61 centimetres; Depth: 14 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.2934",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 53732 (Wellcome Collection Number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/5_6/2cfe45c2_c993_4f22_beda_a3bb00639bae/preview_00306918_001.jpg,warri-board,"No: Am1996,17.1",,,,"Warri-board; carved of wood; rectangle of wood, carved with twelve (two rows of six) round, flat-bottomed holes, one rectangular hole at end; painted blue.","Made by: Ethelred ""Freddy"" Phillips",,,,,,,November 1996,Made in: Speightstown,,wood,,,carved; painted,Length: 18 centimetres; Width: 60 centimetres; Depth: 4 centimetres,,"""Warri, probably derived from West African games, is played on a two-row board. In the Caribbean it is played in Barbados by a dwindling number of competitors in suburban Bridgetown, Speightstown and in rural communities along the west coast. However, it thrives in Antigua, through the flourishing and dynamic National Warri Association."" See De Voogt, Alexander J. Mancala Board Games. London: British Museum Press, 1997.",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Alexander J. de Voogt,Funded by: British Museum Society Board Game Fund,,,1996,Cost for entire collection.,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Am1996,17.1",,,
,warri-board,"No: Af1954,+23.2924",,,,"Warri board, made of wood (?).",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Uganda,wood,,,,Height: 4.40 centimetres; Width: 47 centimetres; Depth: 35.50 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.2924",,,
,warri-board,"No: Af1939,14.10",,,,Wooden games ('Warri') board with 12 hemispherical pits arranged in 2 rows.,,,,,Yoruba,,,,,Found/Acquired: Shagamu,wood,,,carved,Height: 6.20 centimetres; Width: 53.40 centimetres; Depth: 17 centimetres,,"Register 1939:
Wooden games board with 12 hemispherical pits arranged in 2 rows.
""Warri board from Shagamu, Yoruba country.""",,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Mrs R M S Chauncy,,,Previous owner/ex-collection: Col W R M Iles,1939,"Collected before and during the Aro expedition (1901-2), by donor's brother,  Col. W.R.M.Iles, 1896-1902.",,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1939,14.10",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/14_21/f5412f63_9882_42e6_9425_a3c4016812a5/preview_00905896_001.jpg,warri-board,"No: Af1954,+23.2933",,,,"Warri board; carved of wood; board made up of two rows of six circular cavities, with triangular cavity on either end of rows; hole carved at centre leading to rectangular cavity for storing counters; cylinder of wood extends down from end of each triangle to side of rectangular cavity; sides of cavity carved with geometric patterns.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood,,,carved,Height: 18.50 centimetres; Width: 61.50 centimetres; Depth: 13 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.2933",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 88598 (Wellcome Collection Number),,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/14_21/2a15b1c6_6262_46a5_9a80_a3c401680d62/preview_00905892_001.jpg,warri-board,"No: Af1954,+23.2932",,,,"Warri-board; carved of wood; rectangular board with four legs, sides carved with geometric patterns, two rows of six circular cavities carved on top, cylindrical cup on stick carved extending out each short side of board.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Côte d'Ivoire,wood,,,carved,Height: 15.50 centimetres; Width: 77 centimetres; Depth: 15 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.2932",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 168445 (Wellcome Collection Number),,
,warri-board; game-counter; bag,"No: Af1996,01.9.a-ey",,,,"Game-board (a) used for warri, made of iroko wood. The board has two rows of six holes and two end holes, and is supported by an openwork stand which has two central rectangular uprights decorated with geometric motifs, two square section columns at either end and four standing male figures at each corner. Two figures carry rifles, other two figures have raised arms supporting the board. Board has scallop-shaped profile; holes are decorated around the sides and upper edges. Cotton cloth drawstring bag (b) with printed floral design contains one hundred and fifty-two caesalpinia bonduc seeds (c-ex) and one wooden ball (ey) for use as playing counters.",,,,,Yoruba,,,1935-1960,,Found/Acquired: Nigeria,iroko wood; cotton; seed,,,carved,"Height: 27.40 centimetres a ; Height: 20 centimetres b ; Height: 1.90 centimetres ey ; Height: 1.60 centimetres max (c-ex) ; Height: 1.20 centimetres min (c-ex) ; Width: 61.50 centimetres a ; Width: 15.50 centimetres b ; Width: 1.80 centimetres ey ; Width: 1.70 centimetres max (c-ex) ; Width: 1.60 centimetres min (c-ex) ; Depth: 19.10 centimetres a ; Depth: 3.50 centimetres b ; Depth: 1.80 centimetres ey ; Depth: 1.70 centimetres max (c-ex) ; Depth: 1.60 centimetres min (c-ex) ",,Eth.Doc.136. The objects in this collection were carved between 1935-1960 according to the donor.,,Not on display,,Good; minor abrasions to board.,,,,,,Donated by: John Digby Clarke,,,,1996,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1996,01.9.a-ey",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/9_16/1f76b50d_0b25_4f01_842c_a3bf010e06db/preview_00527894_001.jpg,warri-board,"No: Af1950,15.1.a",,,,"Warri-board; carved from wood; rectangular board with elaborately carved stand; twelve round cavities carved on top; raised ridge knob carved at centre of board; larger round cavity carved extending out from each short side of board; stand carved with Xs of twined wood, drawer carved at centre, two birds carved inside stand.",,,,,,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone (?),wood,,,carved,"Height: 23 centimetres a ; Height: 14 centimetres b ; Height: 16 centimetres c ; Width: 63 centimetres a ; Width: 2.50 centimetres b ; Width: 4 centimetres c ; Depth: 17 centimetres a ; Depth: 2.50 centimetres b ; Depth: 3 centimetres c ",,"Accompanies peg and drawer Af1950,15.1b-c.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,bird,,,,,Purchased from: J C Cross,,,,1950,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1950,15.1.a",,,
,warri-board,"No: Af1927,0308.16",,,,Warri-board (for game) made of wood.,,,,,Asante,,,,,Found/Acquired: Ghana,wood,,,,Height: 17 centimetres; Width: 67 centimetres; Depth: 16 centimetres,,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1980 Sept., London, BM, Asante: Kingdom of Gold",,,,,,,Donated by: Gold Coast Commercial Intelligence Bureau,,,,1927,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1927,0308.16",,,
https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_10/14_21/b7574c59_8e5a_4eca_be74_a3c4016802a6/preview_00905884_001.jpg,warri-board,"No: Af1954,+23.2930",,,,"Warri-board (five pieces); carved of wood; a) board consisting of rectangular base with pointed oval tray on top; two rows of six circular cavities carved in top of tray, with triangular cavity at each end of row; floral decorations carved around circular cavities; hole carved in each end of board; b) standing female figure on semicircular base, holding square in each hand with hole carved in centre, straight lines carved on head; c) standing female figure on semicircular base, holding square in each hand with hole carved in centre, floral patterns carved on head; d) and e) pegs to attach standing figures to each end of board.",,,,,Mende,,,,,Found/Acquired: Sierra Leone,wood,,,carved,"Height: 17 centimetres a ; Height: 38 centimetres b ; Height: 37 centimetres c ; Height: 1.50 centimetres d ; Height: 1.50 centimetres e ; Width: 68.50 centimetres a ; Width: 14.50 centimetres b ; Width: 14 centimetres c ; Width: 7.50 centimetres d ; Width: 7.50 centimetres e ; Depth: 15 centimetres a ; Depth: 14 centimetres b ; Depth: 13.20 centimetres c ; Depth: 1.50 centimetres d ; Depth: 1.50 centimetres e ",,,,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.2930",Previous owner/ex-collection number: 222298 (Wellcome Collection Number),,
,warri-board; game-piece,"No: Af1934,0507.1.a-y",,,,Warri board (a) made of wood carved with two rows each with six playig holes. Twenty-four counters (b-y) made of seeds.,,,,,Yoruba,,,1900-1934 (circa),,Found/Acquired: Nigeria,wood; seed,,,carved,"Height: 4.60 centimetres a ; Height: 1.50 centimetres max ; Height: 1.30 centimetres min ; Width: 50.70 centimetres a ; Width: 1.90 centimetres max ; Width: 1.70 centimetres min ; Depth: 17.50 centimetres a ; Depth: 1.90 centimetres max ; Depth: 1.70 centimetres min ",,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: E S Ajayi,,,,1934,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1934,0507.1.a-y",,,
,warri-board; mancala-board,"No: Af1947,21.1",,,,"Wooden mancala-board for 'warri' with fourteen cups, in the form of an Ashanti stool, made with French 5 Franc pieces.",,,,,Asante,,,,,Found/Acquired: Banjul,wood; metal,,,carved,Height: 21.50 centimetres; Width: 55 centimetres; Depth: 18 centimetres,,"Register 1947:
Wooden carved game board for ""mancala"" (warri) with 14 cups, & stool-like carved base.
In form of an Ashanti stool.  Acquired in Bathurst, Gambia, between 1913-34.",,Not on display,"Exhibited:
1980 Sept., London, BM, Asante: Kingdom of Gold  
1997, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 2), 'Count and Capture'",,,,Used in: Ghana,,,Donated by: Sir James Howie,,,,1947,"Register 1947:
 Acquired in Bathurst, Gambia, between 1913-34.",,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1947,21.1",,,
,warri-board,"No: Af1954,+23.3023",,,,Warri-board made of wood (?).,,,,,Akan,,,,,Found/Acquired: Ghana,wood,,,,Height: 22.50 centimetres; Width: 47.20 centimetres; Depth: 19.30 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,,,,1954,,,"Africa, Oceania and the Americas",,"Af1954,+23.3023",,,
,weiqi-set; weiqi-board; weiqi-piece,"No: 1998,0220.7",,,,"Weiqi set, paper board and glass pieces.",,,,,,,,1990-1998,Made in: China,,paper; glass,,,,Diameter: 2.10 centimetres,,,,Not on display,,,,,,,,Purchased from: Ms Jehanne de Biolley,Funded by: British Museum Friends (as British Museum Society),,,1998,,,Asia,,"1998,0220.7",,,