Name/Title
Thorne Checker BoxEntry/Object ID
BG-2024.0455Description
The label on this checker box would appear to attribute the invention of octagonal, or "square" backgammon pieces to the successful backgammon author Harold Thorne. No record of the patent "applied for" has been located, so it was perhaps not filed, or not was not successful. (Patenting a shape seems a stretch.) Such backgammon pieces seem to have been fairly popular in the early 1930's, but did not endure -- probably because they are simply more difficult to manipulate than round ones.Other Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
SequenceOther Number
1930_11_201
