THE ANTIQUE
Games boards and tables
Oh, how to while away these dark evenings until the return of spring? By cosying up and doing as our ancestors did, playing some quiet and relaxing board games such as chess, draughts, backgammon and patience. We can see how important these pastimes were by the antique furniture that allowed them to be played in the home: oak and mahogany games tables inlaid with chequered tops (some doubled up as sewing tables), tables with fold-out green baize tops for playing cards, chunky folding chess boards masquerading as leather-bound books,
