Glories of the £29,000 compendium

Seven telephone lines and several bidders in the room competed for this venerable folding gaming board at the Diss Auction Rooms of Thos. Wm. Gaze & Son on May 21.

The bone and rosewood board for chess, backgammon and nine men's morris had been consigned by a priv…

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