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The Bosphorus Backgammon
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The Bosphorus Backgammon

Inlaid by hand in a Kadıköy workshop, six weeks to a board, forty boards in all. In Turkey backgammon is not a game so much as a habit of the table so this one was built to travel.

Place
Istanbul, Kadıköy
Material
Walnut, mother-of-pearl, felt lining
Edition
40
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