AWSOME OLD PAPAGO GAMING BASKET TRY AND GAMING STICKS!

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This is absolutely wonderful! Old Papago Gaming basket try and gaming sticks... Native americans were big into gaming and gambling. This is a very nice complete set. Tray and gaming sticks. The gaming pieces were dropped onto the tray. Then tallied up thus. One player was red and one player was green. All the striped sided were counted by color and credited to the appropriate player. If a stick landed on its side, it was not counted... Several turns were passed and at the end, the player with the most points won. Easy! This is a piece that came out of a recent show in Creed, Co. From an older collection out of New Mexico. Basket is 15 1/2" across. There are a total of 16 gaming sticks carved from wood. Each is aprox. 5 1/2" long. Very nice patina on the basket and sticks. An fantastic addition to your collection at a GREAT PRICE! A note about me. I have been a collector of “Curiosities” for most of my 50 years. I am interested in all things old, ethnographic and cultural. I buy and sell estates mostly. You never know what I may have up at any given time. I spend a great deal of time at antiques shops, shows, auctions and with private collectors. My data base of buyers and sellers is huge. I offer items mainly for the decorator / collector market. I am an honest seller and state only what I know about an item. I DO NOT MAKE UP FALSE STORYS TO HELP SELL AN ITEM. That said, I do not guarantee items to be other than what I have stated in my auction. My photographs are of exceptional quality and show the item I have listed in its entirety. Basically, if the price is right and the item catches my eye for unique items, I will buy it for resale. I have spent many years curating, cataloging and restoring collections for museums and private collectors. In my experience, I can tell you this... There is no one person that can actually tell you when an object was made or who made that object. They can just give there opinion and while some opinions are better than others, they are still just opinions. It is for this reason that I do not offer authentication services nor do I recognize those opinions of authentication made by third parties. It has been seen time and time again, to do both (authenticate and broker) is a conflict of interest and leads to less than ethical practices. In all fairness of disclosure, I only state what I have been told about an item at the time of acquisition or what I can see first hand. It is up to the end buyer to know what they are collecting. In all of my dealings I adhere to national and international laws in regards to the acquisition, sale and transport of collectibles and antiquities. In specific regards to Native American items, the name of the artist, tribal affiliation and number is given when available. When this information is not available, I can only give out my best opinion as to the origins of the piece or what I have been told. I am NOT a native american expert or an expert in antiquities. A note about feed back: I am happy to leave feedback once you have received your item and have left feedback for me. In the past, I have had troubles with unscrupulous dealers buying for resale only to find that they could not sell an item as quickly as they had hoped. They then came back to me weeks later asking for a refund. I had already left feedback and they tried to use the feedback option to blackmail me into a refund. This is an auction... ALL SALES ARE FINAL... SHIPPING IS FOR INSIDE THE CONTINENTAL US ONLY. International clients (Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico residents) please ask for shipping cost to your part of the world before bidding. Payments are expected to be made within one day of auction closing. PLEASE NOTE: I HAVE VERY LITTLE PROVENANCE ON THIS ITEM. AS SUCH I AM LISTING IT AT JUST OVER WHAT I PAID FOR IT. PLEASE BID ACCORDINGLY AS I WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING RETURNS ON THIS ITEM FOR ANY REASON . REMEMBER, THIS IS AN AUCTION. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK BEFORE YOU BID. BY PLACING A BID ON THIS ITEM, YOU ARE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE ... read more

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