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Acey-deucey of the first quarter of the twentieth century. This colorful acey-deucey board was printed on canvas and incorporates a seahorse, mermaid, compass rose, U.S. Navy Officer Rank Insignias and U.S. Navy Enlisted Rating Badges. Acey-deucey is a table game, a family of board games that includes backgammon.
Tables board used for Jacquet. The following is a glossary of terms used in tables games, essentially games played on a Backgammon-type board. [1] Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to a single game like Backgammon or Acey-deucey), but applicable to a range of tables games.
Find Your Stamps Value (online only) (specializing in US, GB, and other stamps) [7] Freestampcatalogue; Inoubli (Tunisia) Richard Zimmermann Catalog (The joint stamp issues catalog) Sanabria's Air Post Catalogue (Worldwide airmail stamps; last full catalog, 1966; partial, 1972) The South African stamp colour catalogue (South Africa)
Acey-deucey is often mentioned in the book series The Corps by W.E.B. Griffin, but that game is a table game, popular with the United States naval forces, and is not this game. In 1978 a type-in program BASIC video game version was distributed via the book BASIC Computer Games .
In philately, the Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog is the most recent encyclopedic catalogue of postal stationery covering the whole world. Despite most volumes not having been updated for over thirty years, the catalogue and the H & G numbering system are still widely used by philatelists and stamp dealers although the values given in the catalogue are out of date.
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The last US catalog was the 2004 Krause-Minkus Standard Catalog of U.S. Stamps. The Minkus catalogues had more extensive information about the subjects of stamps, a short paragraph about the subject portrayed on the stamp, than the Scott catalogue, which has only a name or brief sentence.
As a young man, Alfred began a small mail-order business selling a complete line of rubber stamps through ads in popular magazines and by mailing circulars. 1906–1907 – Marries Alice Elizabeth Evans. Moves to Sydney and starts a mail-order business selling rubber stamps and imported novelties of all kinds through a catalog.