A South German walnut and floral marquetry games board, the interior inlaid with scrolling foliage and flowerheads around a backgammon board, the front inlaid with a chequer board with flowerhead centres and in various specimen woods, within a boxwood foliate scroll border, with brass hinges and locks, late 16th Century and later, each panel 15½in. (39cm) wide

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A South German walnut and floral marquetry games board, the interior inlaid with scrolling foliage and flowerheads around a backgammon board, the front inlaid with a chequer board with flowerhead centres and in various specimen woods, within a boxwood foliate scroll border, with brass hinges and locks, late 16th Century and later, each panel 15½in. (39cm) wide

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This games-board is colourfully inlaid with flowers and foliage, and fitted with boards for chess and nine-men's morris and an interior backgammon well, whose frame of foliage-wrapped ribbon-scrolls recalls the inlay patterns published in Johann Jakob Ebelmann's Schweyfbuch, 1598

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