Period / Occult Book and Game Dealer
Sep. 23rd, 2004 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurThanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mikekn for this pointer to someone selling a version of the Alfonso "Zodiac Game" on eBay. This is *not* my seven-sided backgammon; it's the rather dumber "chess" game associated with it, with a divinatory spin on it. But hey -- for about ten bucks, including shipping from Britain and 7-sided dice included, I figure it's interesting enough to pick up and see what he does with it. The seller has sold two copies out of 500 so far, which I suspect were me and Mike.
The seller also has a generally interesting eBay store. It includes a dozen or so period and near-period books (anyone want to makealexx_kay's decade with a 1607 copy of the English translation of the Orlando Furioso? It's only a few thousand dollars!), and shareware implementations of Shogi (Japanese chess), Chaturanga (an ancient 4-player Indian chess variant), and Enochian Chess (a mystical chess variant created by the Golden Dawn about a century ago). Neat stuff: I've ordered a bunch of it...
mikekn for this pointer to someone selling a version of the Alfonso "Zodiac Game" on eBay. This is *not* my seven-sided backgammon; it's the rather dumber "chess" game associated with it, with a divinatory spin on it. But hey -- for about ten bucks, including shipping from Britain and 7-sided dice included, I figure it's interesting enough to pick up and see what he does with it. The seller has sold two copies out of 500 so far, which I suspect were me and Mike.The seller also has a generally interesting eBay store. It includes a dozen or so period and near-period books (anyone want to make
alexx_kay's decade with a 1607 copy of the English translation of the Orlando Furioso? It's only a few thousand dollars!), and shareware implementations of Shogi (Japanese chess), Chaturanga (an ancient 4-player Indian chess variant), and Enochian Chess (a mystical chess variant created by the Golden Dawn about a century ago). Neat stuff: I've ordered a bunch of it...![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-10-19 07:29 am (UTC)I'm not sure it would make his decade. I bought him something very similar about a decade ago... ;-)