COLLECTION of Antique "OLD JUDGE" Cigarettes Advertising 2 x CRIBBAGE Boards

TWO **different** antique Victorian-era Crib boards or Cribbage boards advertising the famed "Old Judge" Tobacco and Cigarettes, Both sold together, along with some stereoscope viewer cards, and the remnants of the original stereoscope viewer in RELIC condition. Both lenses are intact in their original mounting, so could possibly be brought-back to useable condition? 

SOLD as "Collection DISPLAY items" only

The two "Old Judge" cribbage boards DIFFER (in the writing at the board's ends)

ONE says "Kick for Old Judge" while the other says "With The Compliments of The American Tobacco Company"

Previously these Old Judge cribbage boards have sold here on eBay for $250 - $440.00 EACH

ALL the items are here included as a GROUP to make the Air Mail postage cost from NEW ZEALAND more affordable :-)

There is a vintage black and white photograph taken in New Zealand's capitol city Wellington showing horse-drawn vehicles and ELECTRIC TRAMS

The top center of this image shows an "OLD JUDGE" advertisement painted to the top of the central building at the corner of Rintoul St & Riddiford St Newtown, Wellington Circa 1905

The building STILL EXISTS (will have a "protected heritage" status) but sadly no longer displays the "Old Judge" advertising

Wellington's first trams were set-up in the 1880's but the first ELECTRIC Trams were in 1904, so this image dates shortly after 1904

Cribbage board's AGE = Circa 1880 - 1890's

The PHOTO image size is approx. 9.4" x 7 1/4" the glazed photo frame and matt board add about 3" in either direction

Most of the stereoscope cards have NO markings to their backs, but 4 of them DO exhibit "Old Judge" advertising to a limited degree

"Old Judge" Tobacco and Cigarettes were the makers of some highly collectable early baseball player cards

 Their cards depicting baseball players from American clubs posing in various field positions. 

To be used as advertising insert cards for "Old Judge" cigarettes. Teams represented: Boston, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Washington.

Cribbage, or crib, is a card game, traditionally for two players, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. It can be adapted for three or four players.

Cribbage has several distinctive features: the cribbage board used for score-keeping, the eponymous crib, box, or kitty (in parts of Canada)—a separate hand counting for the dealer—two distinct scoring stages (the play and the show) and a unique scoring system including points for groups of cards that total fifteen.

It has been characterized as "Britain's national card game" and the only one legally playable on licensed premises (pubs and clubs) without requiring local authority permission.

The game has relatively few rules yet yields endless subtleties during play, which accounts for its ongoing appeal and popularity.

Tactical play varies, depending on which cards one's opponent has played, how many cards in the remaining pack will help the hand one holds, and what one's position on the board is.

A game may be decided by only a few points—or even a single point—and the edge often goes to an experienced player who utilizes strategy, including calculating odds and making decisions based on the relative positions of players on the board.

Both cribbage and its close relative costly colours are descended from the old English card game of noddy.

Cribbage added the distinctive feature of a crib and changed the scoring system for points, whereas costly colours added more combinations but retained the original noddy scoring scheme.

HISTORY of Cribbage.....

According to John Aubrey, cribbage was created by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 17th century, as a derivation of the game "noddy". While noddy has become a historical, rarely-played game, cribbage has continued unchanged as a popular game in the English-speaking world. The objective of the game is to be the first player to score a target number of points, typically 61 or 121. Points are scored for showing certain jacks, playing the last card, for card combinations adding up to 15 or 31, and for pairs, triples, quadruples (cards of the same rank), runs (sequences of consecutive numbers irrespective of suit) and flushes (sets of cards of the same suit).

The continuing popularity of cribbage is due in some part to the influence of the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, who depicted the game in his novel The Old Curiosity Shop.

Cribbage is played by American submariners, serving as a common pastime. The wardroom of the oldest active submarine in the United States Pacific Fleet carries on board the personal cribbage board of World War II submarine commander and Medal of Honor recipient, Rear Admiral Dick O'Kane, and upon the boat's decommissioning, the board is transferred to the next oldest boat

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