Masters Traditional Games

I am only interested in superb quality games even if they cost a lot. Which games on your site qualify as no-shortcut, out and out premium quality?

Most of the games that we sell are well-made primarily in wood or other quality materials. However, some are particularly special and we are very proud to explicitly list our highest quality items below, for those for whom only the best will do:

Hand-made in England

• Premier Sjoelbaks
• Premier Oak Table Skittles
• Hand-crafted Pin Bagatelle
• Northamptonshire Skittles Tables
• Jaques Croquet Sets (although some components are sourced from outside England)
• Jaques Top-end Chess sets

• Ludo board games
• Uckers boards and boxes
• Fox and Geese
• Halma
• Pachisi
• Nine Mens Morris
• Cribbage boxes and Cribbage Boards

Antiques

• Bar Billiards tables from the 1930s
• Old English Bagatelle

Other

• Clamshell and Slate Go stones
• Top-end Go tables (Go-bans)
• Top-end Go boards
• Top-end Go bowls
• Garde Game clock
• Dal Negro Backgammon sets
• Dal Negro Roulette products
• Cornilleau Table Tennis Tables
• Garlando Football Tables
• Giglio Chess Tables

You talk about specialising in High Quality games. But some of your games appear to be mass-produced and relatively inexpensive. Why is that?

Well one man's quality is another man's cheap dross, of course - these things are subjective. However, we also specialise in unusual and unique games and so we've made some exceptions in order to include something that we otherwise couldn't sell.

e.g. we used to sell Double 15 domino sets that came in a rather cheap vinyl covered box which was a bit horrible. But Double 15 dominos aren't that easy to find and we like to make sure that our customers can buy this sort of thing if they need them. So we would rather sell this (with the appropriate warning) than not sell them at all.