Editing Games table desk (section)

=== Variations ===

The games table desk has a great variety of forms.  Like most of the desks of that period it was built on commission to whatever new design, or modification of an old design, the customer might want. Most of them have in common a double-sided top, covered on one side with a gaming board and on the other side with  tooled leather or some other material suitable for placing paper on it and writing with a [[quill]].  The top board is sometimes attached loosely and sometimes very securely to the main body of the desk, and it is sometimes hinged. Some desks have not one but several top boards, kept stacked on one another, each having a different board game design on it.
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File:Spelbord, 1700-tal - Hallwylska museet - 109842.tif|Games table top turned to plain side
File:Spelbord, 1700-tal - Hallwylska museet - 109843.tif|Games table with chess and backgammon boards exposed
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