From Staffordshire with love (more nifty dice!)

As I mentioned in my last dice fetish post, I ordered another set of bone dice from a company called S-J Seamstress in the UK. They arrived in yesterday's mail. S-J Seamstress makes 18th - 19th c. reenactment clothing and accoutrements, so the look of the dice is much less random in shape and size than the ones I got from Jelling Dragon.

Actual cubes!

Side by side, the contrast is significant.

Double-Yahtzee!

The Jelling Dragon dice have a lot more character, IMO. But it's much like the character of a gnarled old tree. I'd bet my boots that the S-J Seamtress dice have a better average of results, even though both sets of dice are hand-made and hand-finished.

I love dice like these because they add period flavor to a game. I think I am largely alone in appreciating that. When I've introduced my old "ancient dice" in past games, I find that players prefer some new-fangled Chessex-y thing that, apparently, provides a more regular distribution of results.