Description (Physical description)
Peterborough Museum: 'Rectangular wood and bone box with four raised legs with carved finials, with sliding lid with semi-circular and rectangular shaped handles. Decorated with carved filigree bone panels in wavy and semi-circular motifs with recessed circles. Filigree work infilled with red and green paint. The inside is divided into two wooden compartments containing 3 bone dice and bone 7-spot dominoes.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'A small box, containing a set of dominoes, and dice of bone, [carved?] in the shape of a bed-stead.'
Event Date 1896
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased from Morely in 1896 for 6/6.
Event Date 1896
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Accession register notes that this box was 'found in a walled up recess of a chimney breast in a cottage of Mildenhall, 1896.'
Event Date 1896
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Annual Report: 'A small box, with sliding lid, in the form of. abed-stead (wood and bone), containing a set of dominoes (bone).'
Event Date 1907
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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)

Context (Other)
Although this box was not identified as being made by French Prisoners-of-War at Norman Cross when it first entered the museum's collection, by 1985 at the latest (when it went on loan to the Peterborough Museum) it was subsequently presumed to be so.
Event Date 18/1/2019
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)