travel games
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Compact Travel Backgammon Set
£2,215.00 – £2,340.00 GBPThe perfect attaché size backgammon for travel, when only the finest bespoke luxury backgammon will do!Bespoke made by hand in our English country workshops since the 1960s, our Compact Travel board is small enough to travel with but not too small to lose its playability – a professional travel backgammon if you will?
Hand inlaid in Dauphin calf leather and available in four classes: Full Leather (full leather stones/checkers); Metal and Leather (chrome or gilt trimmed leather stones/checkers); Prestige (acrylic pearlised stones/checkers) and Club (leather points inlaid into Billiard cloth field with acrylic stones/checkers).
For a full description & prices, please click on the above links for each class.
Compact travel size: 25.4mm/1″ dia, stones/checkers, case closed: 325 x 228 x 60 mm (12.75″ x 9″ x 2.3″).
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Carbon Fibre Backgammon Board
£4,100.00 – £5,025.00 GBPCutting edge and contemporary – our “carbon fibre” style leather backgammon boards look the part offering those who love the game, and the racetrack a way to combine their passions.
Available in traditional Black; Red; Silver; Yellow or chic Orange hides, our “Carbon fibre” effect leather is synonymous with life in the fast lane!
Elegant, striking and contemporary – these boards will add a cutting-edge feel to any setting. The Carbon Fibre is still leather, it is imprinted to look like carbon fibre giving the skin a beautiful texture & playing style.Backgammon Sizes in MM Backgammon Sizes in Inches
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Billiard Cloth Backgammon
£2,750.00 – £4,000.00 GBP- Billiard cloth playing field with leather inlays
- Acrylic checkers, available in Black, White & Red
- Ivory style acrylic doubling cube
- Pair of uncrushable dice cups, suede lined with trips
- 16mm ball cornered dice
- Super-fast gaming surface
- Full leather, hand stitched handle
- Pair of combination locks
- Locks available in either Gilt or Chrome
- Full leather case
- Available in five sizes
- 13 colours to choose from
- Handmade in England
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Water Snake Backgammon Sets
£5,800.00 – £6,850.00 GBPIncorporating water snake into our backgammon designs makes for an exceptionally luxury game!Hardwicke’s Sea or Water Snakeskins are sought from our tanners in Thailand and offer a huge array of beautiful colours for our craftsmen to work with. The lighter colours show the spin markings making the skins even more exotic in look. Unlike most snake skins, water snake does not have scales that lift up, as this would be a problem when playing a friction based game like Backgammon.
- Full Water Snake backgammon set
- Colours of Water Snake available on request
- Inlaid Water Snake points
- Chrome or Gilt encased Water Snake checkers
- Matching giant doubling cube
- No stitching to slow play
- Pair of uncrushable dice cups, suede lined with trips
- 16mm ball cornered dice
- Chrome or Gilt combination locks
- Handstitched leather handle
- Leather case
- Handmade in England
As we often order in the snakeskin to order please submit an enquiry and we can discuss colour options and lead times.
Handmade to order, approximately 18 weeks.
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Leather & Wood Backgammon
£4,100.00 – £5,000.00 GBPWooden Backgammon
For those Backgammon players who like a “noisy” game but also require the ultimate in luxury, we have twinned the two ancient and traditional crafts of the woodworker and the leather-worker to stunning effect.
Choices, Choices, Choices
Our wooden boards are created with a Marquetry veneered playing field; as with all of our boards, there are options to choose from;
- Burr Walnut with Birdseye Maple & Burr Oak points
- Macassar Ebony with Maple & Cedar points
- Figured Sycamore with Santos Rosewood & Cedar points
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Alligator Backgammon
£15,000.00 – £19,995.00 GBPIn either matte or gloss finish; top grade Alligator is simply gorgeous!Our specialist team of master craftsmen who work on exceptional projects involving Alligator and other exotic skins; use their skills handed down from generation to generation to cut and handle these, often difficult, natural materials.
But despite this patient and exacting work, it all pays off in the end and produces a wonderful piece of craftsmanship which stands out in any crowd. There are many “mock-crocs” produced (some we have used for clients wanting the look without the cost) but there is nothing quite like the real thing which folk “in the know” will instantly recognise.
There are many materials we often put Alligator together with; from Shagreen, Ostrich, Water Snake and our Dauphin calf to compliment the Alligator if clients only require this for the case (it is not possible to obtain a perfectly flat playing field due to the scales on the skin, so a mix of other skins with Alligator or an entirely different field skin is often used for playability).
Please note that the lead time for articles like this is often 6 months due to the CITES regulations in the country of origin where the skins originate from and the other countries they have to pass through to arrive here in the UK and then again to be re-exported to their final destination. Do not worry, – our team handle this process regularly and you will only get involved at the final stage when these are processed by FedEx and your local customs.
Prices: Below is a rough idea of pricing, although skin prices vary depending on rarity, age and colour availability this will give you an idea of costs when twinned with other precious materials.
A firm cost will be given when our Special Commissions team know exactly what your requirements are and have sourced the specialist materials required for the job.
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Super-Enriched Backgammon
£300,000.00 GBPWhen the only the best is required……Showcased here is a super-enriched personal commission for a private jet. An Alligator and Gold tournament size Backgammon.
All hardware (locks, handle plates and rings) are 18ct solid hallmarked white Gold. The case and field are in finest Alligator (we use the same tanners as Hermès) in a gloss finish. The points have been inlaid in Shagreen (Stingray) which we source in the Far East.
The stones/checkers are Gold, in white, and yellow finish. Then set with a one carat Diamond in each. To the edge, we have inlaid Shagreen and to the underside Alligator.
With precious stones/checkers like these, they need to be protected, not just from the normal rigours of play but also from each other – so we designed a special padded suede stowage area at the front of the case to cocoon each in its own individual compartment sitting either side of the 18ct white Gold Doubling cube which has both initials and numbers set in Diamonds.
The Alligator cups which are suede lined are stowed within a separate Alligator cabinet are joined by four 18ct white Gold spot dice with Diamonds as the “spots”! Also placed here are 4 ball cornered precision dice, all lined and padded in suede.
To the outside of the case set into the centre of the lid is an 18ct white Gold plaque where initials are set again in Diamonds.
To get the dice rolling, please email our Special Commission team to discuss your requirements – basically, anything can be done, so do not hold back!
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Travel Backgammon / Professional Roll-Up Backgammon
£445.00 – £669.00 GBPForget the unplayable roll-up backgammon sets on the market – no serious player will use these – Geoffrey Parker has created a hard-sided roll-up backgammon!
Utilising new technology our craftsmen & women print your backgammon colour design directly onto our leather, the playing field is then bound to two magnetic leather sides with 3 ‘loose’ sides that magnetise into place creating a rigid, hard sided backgammon. Once rolled up, the “board” and walls stow neatly within a drawstring bag which also houses acrylic stones/checkers, dice and doubling cube. Although we can make dice cups as an extra, we feel that the main point of the board is to keep it as light and easily stowable as possible within one’s luggage.
Once you choose the size of Roll-Up Backgammon that works best for you a member of our design team will be in contact to help design your perfect travel backgammon.
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Chess & Backgammon Attaché
£6,350.00 GBPTruly aimed at the avid player who does not want to compromise!Many of our customers are both keen Backgammon and Chess players who wants to offer the very best to their competitors when on the move. So we at Geoffrey Parker thought well, OK, let’s put two professional specification pieces together – yes it may weigh a bit but perhaps someone will bring it onto the deck for you or to your salon table? Neatly stowed away within one attaché case is another attaché case!
Firstly there is our famous tournament size Backgammon, fully hand inlaid in leather (or wood) and available in all the usual specifications our Championship boards carry. Then lying inside is a slim professional folding Chessboard attaché; fully hand inlaid in matching leather livery and containing safely stowed in padded sumptuous suede; a chess set of your choosing. Of course, you may wish to take these to separate destinations or allow your friends to disappear to their suite with one or the other; but at the end of the day, they make easy bedfellows and can be neatly stowed away for when the next travel bug bites!
