our green house

The game we know as jacks was played in the ancient world over 2000 years ago with small animal bones or pebbles. In early America the game was commonly known as five-stones or jack-stones. As time went on, one of the stones (the Jack) was replaced by a wooden ball, then a rubber ball; the other stones were replaced by small pointed metal pieces reminiscent of the original animal knucklebones.

We cast our giant jacks of lead-free pewter. A set of 10 jacks is poly bagged with one wood ball (to imitate the non-bouncing stone “jack” of the traditional game) and one rubber ball, then pouched as described with a hang tag with history and instructions..

** DRAWSTRING COTTON POUCH (NOT AS PICTURED)

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