Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board 'three-dimensional drawings The image featured is Poirer's

The image featured is Poirer's “Le Discours de la Méthode

but have a slight hunch they may be Korean and would guess they date from the 1940s or early 50s

it reminds me somehow of Plains Indian ledger drawings and shields: just stunning

this is a bit of a weird one

It is in near perfect condition

Bone Inlay Beautiful Handmade Wooden Backgammon Board 'three-dimensional drawings The image featured is Poirer'sI first picked this up because I liked it as a box old, wooden, and with lots of character but I really fell in love when I opened it to find this beautiful backgammon board inside! Clearly invested with a lot of care, the game board features inlaid blonde wood for the "points" (the elongated triangles), and then wonderful decorative forms down the middle: windmill like shapes at the center of each side, one of them composed entirely of a blonde wood,