An Antique Jaques Portable B. C. D. Chess Board, Mid to Late 19th Century

the red leather cylindrical tube gilt-stamped: PORTABLE B. C. D. BOARD... JAQUES PATENTEE, LONDON, the rolled cloth board for chess and backgammon, incorporating a hinged red leather case with further gilt tooling, 16 turned boxwood counters, 16 turned ebony counters (motifs for chess side, plain turning for backgammon or draughts the other), two bone dice, and two red leather and gilt shakers, also used as sliding stops

Length: 20.7cm

Width: 4.9cm 

Stock Reference: MJ 1978

Interesting Victorian Jaques travelling chess set. The attractive wooden counters are for backgammon and chess, and fit snugly inside a rolled up leather board. Two leather shakers fit on either end and act, at the same time, as 'end stops'.

Lovely design, and now quite scarce. B. C. D. stands for 'Backgammon- Chess- Draughts', and the three games are ingeniously incorporated into the red leather tube. The B. C. D. set was first patented by Jaques in 1859.