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19th C. Fox & Geese Gameboard

Double-sided gameboard from the last quarter of the 1800's.  Applied walnut square-nailed rim.  The paint surface on both sides as well as the construction are time-capsule original.  Unusual pumpkin over mustard paint on a chocolate ground.  This is one of the few gameboards I've seen in which the Fox and Geese side wasn't a pencil-sketched afterthought, but fully decorated, and may well have been intended as the primary side.  Of the 189 boards catalogued in The Art of the Game, only three are paint decorated Fox and Geese gameboards.  The checkerboard on the back uses the same colors, but there the mustard undercoat shows through the pumpkin for a subtle striated effect.  A rare and very strong graphic board. 

$1,250