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Boxed draughts set issued by the Australian Comforts Fund
Heraldry
Maker: Australian Comforts Fund
A wooden box fitted with a sliding lid, containing a set of draughts. The lid is branded in black ink with the ACF star and the sides of the box with 'ACF'. The box contains a full set of twelve white...REL24472
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Boxed wooden chess set issued by the Australian Comforts Fund
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Boxed set of wooden chess pieces. The box is supplied with a sliding lid which has been impressed in red with the ACF star and letters and deep finger depression assist in opening the lid. A paper lab...REL/09240
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Carved chess set : Lance Corporal H Beitsch, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company
Heraldry
Maker: Beitsch, Hector
Complete carved chess set made of dark and light woods using a lathe and hand carving.REL30302
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Chess set and bag : Heinrich Sänger (Saenger), Point Cooke Prisoner of War Camp, California
Heraldry
Maker: Sanger, Heinrich
Handmade chess board and pieces with a canvas carry bag. The chess board is in the form of a wooden box with two hinges at the back to allow the lid to open 180 degrees to form a flat board. There are...REL31833
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Cribbage board
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Commercially made wooden cribbage board which has been signed by members of the RAAF. The board features two sets of 60 holes, located on the left and right sides which have been divided into six grou...REL41938
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Cribbage board from Changi : Sergeant Robert Charles Shelton, 2/9 Field Ambulance
Heraldry
Maker: Shelton, R C
Handmade rectangular wooden cribbage board topped with a perforated alloy plate. The plate is engraved with the Australian coat of arms in the centre, in which the shield and crown elements have been ...REL25173.001
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Cribbage board : Leading Seaman Victor Peace Sotheren, RAN
Heraldry
Maker: Sotheren, Victor Peace
Rectagular wooden cribbage board with an inlaid central panel of five lozenges separated with diagonal bands of light and dark wood. Five sets of 12 scoring holes have been drilled into the wood down ...REL41318
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Cribbage Board : Private M R Cox, 2/26 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Cox, Malcolm Richard
Hand engraved aluminium cribbage board mounted on wood. There is a small aluminium plate screwed to the end of each board, which swivels to reveal the peg storage. THe top plate is punched with standa...REL/09122
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Cribbage Board : Private M R Cox, 2/26 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Cox, Malcolm Richard
Hand engraved aluminium cribbage board mounted on wood. There is a small aluminium plate screwed to each end of the board that swivels to reveal a storage space for the scoring pegs. The top plate is ...REL/09121
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Hand made cribbage board : D A Johnston, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Handmade wooden cribbage board with stepped upper and lower edges. An aluminium plate, also stepped, has been attached to the wood with steel pins. After attachment to the wood the plate has been punc...REL/15925
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Pocket chess & draughts set : Sergeant W S Osborne-White, 2/2 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Brown leatherette envelope and sleeve containing a chess and draughts set. The sleeve, which is folded in half, contains a one-piece, cardboard, yellow and black chequered games board. The board has s...REL25252
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Prisoner of war chess set from Ambon
Heraldry
Thirty three piece chess set consisting of both black and white pieces. There are two kings, two queens, two knights, two rooks, two bishops and eight pawns of each colour. The white pieces are colour...REL45999
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Prisoner of war navigational device : J Collins, Burma Railway
Heraldry
Maker: Collins, J
A sphere and hemisphere of equal radii, each projected to a plane surface, complete with carefully inscribed parallels and meridians at selected intervals. The sphere represents the celestial sphere a...REL/12229
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Prisoner of War trench art cribbage board : Private George Alexander Guthrie Siebert, 2/18 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Siebert, George Alexander Guthrie
Handmade wood and aluminium cribbage board with two boomerang shaped panels of punched out holes for the pegs. There are 60 holes in each boomerang. The board has a hand-engraved card suit in each cor...AWM2018.1030.17
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Prisoner of War trench art cribbage board : Private George Alexander Guthrie Siebert, 2/18 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Siebert, George Alexander Guthrie
Handmade wood and aluminium cribbage board with two boomerang shaped panels of punched out holes for the pegs. There are 60 holes in each boomerang. The board has a cut-out aluminium card suit in ea...AWM2018.1030.26
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'Strategy' board game, austerity version : Master Frank W Cocks, Kalgoorlie
Heraldry
Maker: G N Raymond Pty Ltd
Boxed board game, rectangular format, entitled 'Strategy - A Game of Skill', which is printed in red on the lid. The lid is decorated with a black and white photographic image of three officers repres...REL39861
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'Target for Tonight' boxed flying target game : Jim Rose, Marrickville
Heraldry
Maker: Metal-Wood Repetitions Company
Boxed child's game entitled 'Target for Tonight'. The rectangular cardboard box, printed in blue and red, incorporates the title and an illustration of a boy playing the game, adjacent to a depiction ...REL35466.001
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'Target for Tonight' playing board : Jim Rose, Marrickville
Heraldry
Maker: Metal-Wood Repetitions Company
Playing board designed to accompany the child's game entitled 'Target for Tonight'. The board is a square playing cork or compressed fibre board, wrapped in paper printed with nine illustrated targets...REL35466.002
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Uckers board : Leading Seaman Victor Peace Sotheren, RAN
Heraldry
Maker: Sotheren, Victor Peace
Piece of square brown canvas painted on one side in black, brown, red and yellow, with the traditional markings of an Uckers board grid and four home squares. The arrow end of the yellow grid is annot...REL41317
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Wallet : Sergeant R S Turner, 6 Division Supply Column, Australian Army Service Corps
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Black leatherette wallet with a semi-circular opening containing a black leatherette covered 'board' with no markings. The 'board' is 201 by 142mm when open. The front of the wallet is stamped 'CHESS ...RELAWM24596