Jun 23, 2022 - Sale 2610

Sale 2610 - Lot 270

Price Realized: $ 2,210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(GAMES.) Group of 3 nineteenth-century juvenile entertainment sets. Vp, vd

Additional Details

- No title, no maker. Hand-colored engraved circular game board sectioned by hedges or paths of grass with a swan swimming in a fountain at the center; 30 hand-colored engraved triangular cards representing various botanical specimens. Laid paper, 13 3/4x14 inches, dissected into 8 segments and mounted on original linen backing; minor soiling but generally fine. French or German, early 19th century.

- Arthus Bertrand. Box of 84 rectangular dyed bone markers or tokens, each with an engraved image and French phonetic lettering piece pasted to either side (20 yellow, 20 red, 20 blue, 24 white). Original pink card box with a decorative medallion vignette and Bertrand label pasted on; minor wear, sectional dividers loose. Paris, early 19th century.

- Panorama. Original slide-top paper-covered wooden box with hand-colored engraved title panel pasted on which houses a set of 12 hand-colored engraved miniature views of Paris and Versailles with captions in French, German and English, and a mirrored optical device on a turned mahogany stand. Np, English?, mid-nineteenth century.