Box 26
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Hand-colored pictorial game sheet of Twelfth Night characters, 1830s
Item — Box: 26, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Rewritten from dealer description:
This item is a hand-colored pictorial game sheet of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night characters, created sometime in the 1830s by game publisher A. Park. Each character on the sheet includes accompanying riddles. Handwritten on the otherside: "Master Gay" and accompanying illegible postal address information, including the word "Thilford" (likely Tilford), plausibly in England. The item measures 19.5 x 14.5 inches.
Dates:
1830s
T. Goode Goode's American Nuts and Crackers puzzle sheet, 1853
Item — Box: 26, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Derived from dealer description: Puzzle sheet titled Goode's American Nuts and Crackers published by T.Goode at 30 Aylesbury St, Clerkenwell, London in December 1853. The heading of the sheet reads: "Containing nearly 200 Conundrums, Enigmas, Puzzles, & c. with their answers. Part 3. Price One Penny"
The puzzles are printed on a large single sheet (22 x 17 inches), printed on recto only with various woodcuts and typographical borders; small...
Dates:
1853
Saussine Joan of Arc lotto game, 1910
Item — Box: 26, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
The lotto game produced by Saussine Éditeur in 1910 consists of four uncut chromolithographed sheets. The cover sheet would have been affixed to the lid of the box, which is not included in the file. It reproduces a wall painting of Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orléans by Jules Eugène Lenepveu, dated 1886-90 and located in the north transept of the Pantheon in Paris. There are twelve lotto cards, each with a captioned illustration and eight numbers. Spread over two sheets of six, the lotto...
Dates:
1910