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Draughts board with a chessboard on the back. The frame is decorated with cartouches containing the initials D. H. Joustra and the year 1816. The accompanying box with chess pieces again bears the name D.H. Joustra, the year 1856 and the place name…

This draughts board with protruding fields and inscription E.H.S. ANNO 1760 was once used in a horse-drawn barge. The board was dug up from ‘It Far’, a now-closed tow canal in Hommerts. A similar draughts board with the same inscription E.H.S. is in…

100-field draughts board with a mill game without diagonals on the back. The origin is Friesland. The board is ochre yellow with black fields. On the back the initials T F S and the year 1719 are deeply carved above and below the mill game.
The…

Draughts board made of one wooden panel with the mill game on the reverse. In the centre of the mill game are the initials B.W.H and the year 1888. The board has a suspension eye in one corner.
The current owner from Franeker purchased this draughts…

Draughts board made of one wooden panel with the mill game on the back. In the centre of the mill game is the name L. J. Dijkstra and the year 1845. The board has a suspension eye in one corner.
The first owner of this draughts board was Lolke…

Draughts board made of two wooden panels and on the back a mill game with the year 1877 painted on it. The year is in the centre of the mill game. The board has a brown lace frame. The damage in the paint shows that the draughts board had an earlier…

The oak draughts board has a floral motif carved into the light-coloured 50-player fields. On the reverse side is the mill game and the year 1724 incised. Also on this side are the 37 holes of the solitaire game, this part is framed with an octagonal…

A draughts board used in the 18th century on a horse-drawn barge.
The draughts board from 1769 is made of oak and rectangular in shape with recessed head with suspension eye. On the head in overlaid red letters: ‘EHS / ANNO 1769’.
Part of the…

The draughts board is made of 2 pine panels, painted with a white background, the spaces are light yellow and black. The squares are numbered in pencil from 1 to 50. On the back is the mill game painted with the year 1845 and the initials of the…

An 18th century draughts board from Joure. The back of the draughts board contains carvings with the text ‘17 HET FLEK IOUWER 74’ at the top, below that a cut-out of the village of Joure flanked by two windmills and below that a pattern in Frisian…