CLEARANCE ITEM

This Dominoes Set is hand-made from fully finished buffalo bone with 28 tiles. Dominoes was a favored game played by Civil War soldiers in the camps. Recorded history states that Dominoes games began appearing in the US around the year 1863. 

In 1863, a new game variously described as All Fives, Fives or Cribbage Dominoes appeared for the first time in both English and American sources; this was the first scoring game and it borrowed the counting and scoring features of cribbage, but 5 domino spots instead of 15 card points became the basic scoring unit, worth 1 game point. The game was played to 31 and employed a cribbage board to keep score. (Wikipedia)

 In this photo, Civil War soldiers play dominoes at Camp Winfield Scott in Yorktown, Virginia. Library of Congress photo.

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