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Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]
Wealthier families could afford toys made from more expensive materials, such as ivory. [105] Roman children likely would have made use of household objects or common materials such as sticks, hands, spindle whorls, loom weights, stones, broken pottery, and possibly earth as makeshift toys. [110]
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called pips or dots) or is blank. The backs of the tiles in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design.
Ivory has been valued since ancient times in art or manufacturing for making a range of items from ivory carvings to false teeth, piano keys, fans, and dominoes. [9] Elephant ivory is the most important source, but ivory from mammoth, walrus, hippopotamus, sperm whale, orca, narwhal and warthog are used as well.
"Today, we're going to give it an insurance valuation of $150,000 to $200,000," said appraiser Allan Katz on "Antiques Roadshow." "That's extraordinary," said the tooth's owner.
It is not known for certain when the ivory diptych of Rufius Probianus was created, it is believed to be dated to between the years 396 AD and 416 AD. [2] However in the year 384 the emperor of the eastern empire, Theodosius I, decided to enact a law that forbid the issuance of gold and diptychs made of ivory by anyone other than a consul.
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singles, singles domino, single domino A tile with different ends i.e. not a doublet. [3] singles game A two-hand game or a four-hand game not played in partnership. [9] sleeper An undealt tile in a block domino game - a boneyard tile that cannot be drawn. [2] spilikin A small peg of bone, wood, ivory, etc., used for taking the score at ...