Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… ‘“We Had Carding”: Hospitable Card Play and Polite Domestic Sociability among the Middling Sort in Eighteenth-Century England’, Journal of Social History (vol. 43, n° 4, Summer 2009), p. 989-1008. 2 . On the general history of gaming … and contrasting with the previous years’ extensive use of walnut wood. Mahogany in particular became fashionable in England at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The tables could be of rectangular or triangular shape and most of … seated three to four players, creating a strong sense of intimacy if compared with wider dining tables for instance. In England, gaming tables became objects of luxury strongly inspired by the different continental trends, like those …
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