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American Walnut Cribbage
The only card game that can legally be played for money in English pubs, Cribbage requires the use of a scoring board which appears to have been in existence long before the invention of Cribbage itself and may be descended from game boards used in Ancient Egypt.
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This is a large, high quality Cribbage board, hand-made in America. The large nickel and gold plated pegs are stored in a special compartment at the end of the board, underneath, secured by a sliding panel. It is made from the beautiful American Walnut wood.
It's a very elegantly crafted board that is ideal for a gift or for the Cribbage connoisseur.
Comes complete with pegs and rules. Approx Dimensions: 35.5 x 11.5 x 2 cm
We also sell spare cribbage pegs. These are quite large and so only suitable for cribbage boards with large holes. 2 pegs are gold plated and the other 2 are nickel plated. Length 40mm, diameter of point 4mm.
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American Walnut Club Cribbage Board |
£33.25 | £39.90 | Eng/Wales: 3 wk.days |
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Set of 4 large Cribbage pegs (2 x gold plated and 2 x nickel plated) |
£6.66 | £7.99 | Eng/Wales: 4 wk.days |
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The History of CribbageThe invention of Cribbage, Crib for short, was attributed to the poet Sir John Suckling (1609 - 1642) by his biographer, John Aubrey. Suckling was something of a scoundrel by all accounts. He was an expert at cards, dice and bowls as well as being a womaniser and notorious wit on top of his poetry day-job! His most notorious feat was began when he distributed large numbers of packs of marked cards to the aristocratic populace around England. He then followed up this preparation by going around the country playing the local gentry at Cribbage for money, managing to earn himself around £20,000 (about £4 million in today's money). There's no hard evidence to show that Suckling was the inventor of Cribbage and it seems to be suspiciously similar to an earlier game played in Tudor times called Noddy, the rules for which aren't entirely clear. A standard Cribbage board is a lesson in functional simplicity. Each player moves a pair of pegs up the outside and down the inside of their side of the board. The front peg shows the current score while the rear peg shows the previous score - a device that efficiently prevents mistakes and allows opponents to curtail any surreptious cheating. The holes are clearly divided into sets of five, a fact that allows large scores to be tallied immediately without counting and means that a quick glance is all that is needed to determine who is winning and by how much. A complete trip up and down the board is 60 holes but each end has a finishing hole into which the winning peg is placed. Thus, games scored using a Cribbage board are usually first to 61, 121 or 181. You can learn more about the History of Cribbage from The Online Guide to Traditional Games. |