One wooden gambling stick which is cylindrical in shape, with rounded ends. The stick has a smooth surface and is decorated with three narrow black bands and three thick black diagonal stripes near one end. There are three inlaid rectangular pieces of mother of pearl which are positioned over the black bands, on the opposite side to the thick stripes.
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