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Title: Very Small carved Wooden Bottle enclosing Dice
Post by: wilhenri on January 09, 2015, 03:19:22 AM

Another car boot find no idea of age possibly 50 years or so. Beautifully made wooden possibly boxwood bottle containing 3 bone dice...I think the photos will be adequate description. Not interested in the value just for your enjoyment.

Title: Re: Very Small carved Wooden Bottle enclosing Dice
Post by: mart on January 09, 2015, 11:39:23 AM

Well, if that isn`t the neatest thing !!  I sure was wondering how they got the dice through the neck of the bottle !!  Now I see !!  :D

Title: Re: Very Small carved Wooden Bottle enclosing Dice
Post by: wilhenri on January 09, 2015, 12:42:19 PM

I may just use it for snuff

Title: Re: Very Small carved Wooden Bottle enclosing Dice
Post by: KC on January 09, 2015, 03:27:57 PM

You do come up with some of the neatest finds! 

Dice games were extremely popular during war times!  Do you have a collection?

Title: Re: Very Small carved Wooden Bottle enclosing Dice
Post by: wilhenri on January 10, 2015, 04:58:39 AM

They just happen to be things I find as I go round charity/ thrift shops and car boot garage sales. Not a specific collection as such I do have about 20 of these brass spinners some with 1,2,3 etc on some with put and take on and everyone of them is slightly different either in size or design in some small way. I did have one that the top was in two halves and rotated separately but sold it on Ebay and it went to the USA. That I regret now. I have collected since I was a child and started with cigarette cards of which I still have a large collection. My big passion was firearms and edged weapons but of course guns are a no no in the UK now so most of mine had to be handed in and melted down very upsetting.