Venetian Double Nine Dominoes
Dal Negro have been the world's leading supplier of premium quality gaming boxes including Backgammon sets since the nineteen-fifties. They are also the global specialist in playing cards with a history going back to the mid-eighteenth century.
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Beautiful 'Domino Venezia' double nine dominoes from Dal Negro. Presented in what we think is a Briarwood root box that is exquisite on the top. The dominoes have a lovely backing to them depicting scenes from Venice, and the blank segments have the classic Dal Negro hand logo.
As ever, Masters Traditional Games has found something a cut above the average for our customers.
The ivory-coloured dominoes are just the right thickness at 12mm and come with brass spinners.
Note: This product used to have black dots only but now they come in the colours shown in the picture.
There are 55 dominoes in this set.
Box dimensions approx. 31 x 20 x 5cm. Dominoes are made from a modern composition material at 54 x 27 x 12mm.
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History of Dominoes
Tile games of some form have been found from around 1120 AD in China. Chinese dominoes are longer than Western ones and are divided into two types and were originally carved from bone or ivory with the indented pips made of ebony. Each Chinese tile represents one of the twenty-one different permutations of throwing two cubic dice although there are a total of thirty-two tiles since certain dominoes are duplicated. A set of Chinese tiles is divided into two categories - Military and Civilian. The Civilian tiles are the set of tiles that have duplicates while the Military tiles are those that are unique.
The game appeared first in Europe in 18th Century Italy, possibly in the courts of Venice and Naples. Although domino tiles are clearly of Chinese inheritance, there is debate over whether the game played by Europeans was brought by the Chinese to Europe in the fourteenth century or, in fact, was invented independently. European dominoes are shorter than Chinese ones and there is a single tile for each permutation of the throw of two dice or a blank making a total of twenty-eight tiles. This is the standard or "double-six" set and, as in China, various games can be played with it. Double-twelve sets (91 tiles) are popular in America and Double-nine sets (55 tiles) also provide some extra complexity to this genre of game.
The game arrived in Britain in the late 18th Century from France (possibly via French prisoners of war) and quickly seems to have become popular in inns and taverns at the time. The word "Domino" is French for a black and white hood worn by Christian priests in winter and that is probably from where the name of the game derives.
You can learn more about Dominoes from The Online Guide to Traditional Games.