Olive Burl (olive wood checkers) Backgammon

Olive Burl (olive wood checkers) Backgammon

Olive tree is known as the Tree of Life due to its benefits for the mankind from ancient times up to nowadays. Olive wood is very hard, strong and long-lasting. Heartwood is a cream or yellowish brown, with darker brown wavy grains. The handcrafted Olive Backgammon with side racks. The playing field is a combination of olive wood with wenge & mahogany points.

It's known for over 7000 years and has a symbolic connotation in cultures around the world. The olive branch was often a symbol of abundance, glory and peace. The leafy branches of the olive tree were ritually offered to deities and powerful figures as emblems of benediction and purification, and they were used to crown the victors of friendly games and bloody wars. Over the years, the olive has been the symbol of peace, wisdom, glory, fertility, power and purity.

This backgammon is handmade using the art of marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie) which is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns and designs.

Our skilful staff use this method in order to create the interior design of the backgammon.

• Olive burl with Wenge & Mahogany points
• 30 olive wood checkers
• 4 dice
• 1 doubling cube
• 1set of Wooden Dice Cups
• Packing: Manopoulos gift box
• Size of the closed game board: 48 x 30cm
• Weight of set: 2.8 kg
• Playing field: Olive burl, Mahogany and Wenge
• Exterior field: Olive burl

Top quality made by Manopoulos - a traditional Greek family-owned small producer.