Description (Physical description)
Peterborough Museum: 'Rectangular wood and bone box on four legs with triangular sliding lid and cribbage board. Decorated with bone panels and brightly coloured paintings of landscapes, seascapes and people, under glass panels. Some of bone carved panels are infilled with red and green paint. Contains 40 bone cards, dominoes and a spinning top (tee-to-tum).;
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Production / use)
Made by French (Napoleonic) prisoners-of-war
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Box with feet and with sliding, arched lid, covered with thin bone plates. The sides and lid are ornamented with water colour paintings of flowers, etc., and of figures dressed in the so called Incroyable fashions of the 1790's, framed under glass in panels cut in the bone. The box contains dominoes and a pack of cards, made of bone and painted; the lid is flanked by marking boards for cribbage.
Event Date 1931
Author: maa

Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum, 30/07/1985 to 18/01/2019, Long term loan, although some of it may have been on display.
Event Date 30/7/1985
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, 01/05/2019 to 30/04/2019, Norman Cross collection
Event Date 1/5/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Loan (Long Term Gallery Loan)
Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, 16/11/2022 to 19/11/2025, Norman Cross collection
Event Date 16/11/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)