Late C14th - C15th Tables

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Reproduction oak backgammon board, with inlayed box and yew points; with be
  • Reproduction oak backgammon board, with inlayed box and yew points; with be
  • Fifteenth century backgammon board, showing starting layout

  • Late C14th - C15th Tables

  • Oak board with box and yew inlay; bone dice and beechwood playing pieces
  • £0.00
Commission Only

Our tables games, as well as some of our other larger games, are made to order. Please get in touch via our contact page for a quote, including time scales and shipping costs, or to discuss your own requirements. The set shown here is based on an archaeological find from medieval Freiburg in southwest Germany. An approximate price for this set would be in the region of £300.

Typically, tables boards of the late fourteenth and fifteenth century were constructed as two square leaves, joined by either leather thong or metal hinges. These replaced the earlier single piece rectangular boards but are of similar proportions.

Our boards are of quarter-sawn oak, with raised and mitred borders. The points are inlaid, and of alternating box and yew wood. Playing pieces are of natural (white) and stained (black) beech wood; and these are supplied, with three bone dice, in a drawstring pouch.
 

Specifications for the illustrated set:

Historic Period or Date:

  • Late 14th to 15th century

Materials and Special Features:

  • Quarter-sawn hinged oak board
  • Inlaid points of yew and box wood
  • Beech wood counters
  • Ring-and-dot bone dice
  • Playing pieces supplied in drawstring pouch

Dimensions:

  • Board when closed: 14.5" x 14.5" x 1.75"
  • Counters: 7/8" diameter
  • Dice: c. 1cm square