Lot #163. Antique Triangular Cribbage Board
Antique Triangular Cribbage Board.
Offered here is an antique Isosceles Triangular Cribbage Board, measuring 12″ on a side with a compartment for pegs on the underside. The inlays are Holly, Mahogany and Rosewood. Circa 1900.
Cribbage, or crib, is a card game traditionally for two players, but commonly played with three, four or more, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. Cribbage has several distinctive features: the cribbage board used for score-keeping, the eponymous crib or box (a separate hand counting for the dealer), two distinct scoring stages (the play and the show) and a unique scoring system including points for groups of cards that total fifteen. The Rules and other Cribbage facts and information can be found on the Anerican Cribbage Congress web site: http://www.cribbage.org/rules/
According to John Aubrey, cribbage was created by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 17th century, as a derivation of the game “noddy.” While noddy has disappeared, crib has survived, virtually unchanged, as one of the most popular games in the English-speaking world. The objective of the game is to be the first player to score a target number of points, typically 61 or 121. Points are scored for card combinations that add up to fifteen, and for pairs, triples, quadruples, runs and flushes.
