A Fine c.1880 Carved Bone Scrimshaw Sailors Dice Holder & Dice sub-Religion & Relics Period: Early 19th Century

Period: Early 19th Century

or any of the various embellishments produced to persuade the growing Victorian middles classes to part with their coins

marks and scratches to be expected from a box of this date

the gilt lettering still very apparent

A Fine c.1880 Carved Bone Scrimshaw Sailors Dice Holder & Dice sub-Religion & Relics Period: Early 19th CenturyOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1875 1900 Width: 1. 5 inches square The beautiful bone dice holder modelled as a dice with scrimshaw carved playing card decoration, sliding cover to reveal compartment containing six bone dice, the side decoration to include the Queen of spades, King of spades and Jack of spades survives from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Attractively designed and wonderfully