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1889.43.8

Bone die. Cream coloured with drilled holes filled with a white pigment.

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1889.43.8

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bone die. Cream coloured with drilled holes filled with a white pigment.
Person
Field collector Arthur Henry Finn
PRM source Arthur Henry Finn
PRM source Elizabeth Anne Finn
PRM source Mary Anne Finn
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1889
Date collected
By 1889
Acquisition information
Purchased: 07/1889 Found unentered: 1997
Materials and processes
Material Bone, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Drilled
Dimensions
Length: max 18 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1889.43.8
Research and responses

Finn was based at Cantonment Parsonage, Rangoon. [MdeA]

Mrs Finn must be his wife Mary Anne Finn or his mother Elizabeth Anne Finn, see biographies [AP 24/04/2014]

Search terms: Toy and Game, Die Gaming Piece, Toy

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