gambling stick

One cylindrical wooden gambling stick with rounded ends and a smooth surface. The stick is decorated with one thick black band and one thick red band near the centre, with a thick diagonal red line near one end. There are incised lines at both ends of the stick. There are dark brown blotches over the surface of the object.

Label: yellow exhibition label, printed.

Used in a guessing game - each player on one side has one plain and one marked piece and the other side has to guess which hand holds which gaming piece.

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