Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 7, 1806
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 16
Additional Source Text:
"These counters are used in Hindostan and Persia by the Natives there by way of recreation."
Notes:
The counters (board game pieces) may have been used in nard, a variant of backgammon traditionally played in Persia.
Joseph Maylin (ca. 1769-1834) was an Englishman who at the age of fifteen went to India, "where, under the preaching of the venerable [Baptist missionary Rev. William] Carey, he was converted and baptized. He became eminently successful in mercantile pursuits" and in 1806 arrived in the U.S., where he subsequently settled in Philadelphi as a preacher of the gospel. Baron Stow, A History of the English Baptist Mission to India (Philadelphia, 1835), pp. 100-101
