[Game].
Alphabet Patience and Joujou.
Sold at the factory of Instructive and Amusing games in Paris. [Amonier. About 1835]. Cardboard box with glass lid (22.5 x 16 x 2.8 cm) separated into two compartments. Edges of yellow paper and black decorated paper, embossed and gilded frieze in frame. It contains a puzzle cut out alphabet book, in period colors (19.8 x 26 cm), 50 illustrated letter cards (4 x 2.7 cm) and 91 letter cards (2 x 2 cm), blue and pink marbled paper reverse.

Rare game box including :
A lithographed alphabet book on laid paper and stenciled in a frame, mounted on a thin wooden board and cut into a puzzle. Each numbered letter, twenty-five letters, no Ws, has the lower case letter at the top and the name of an occurrence separated into syllables at the bottom. 
Alphabet cards also lithographed and colored separated in three parts: name of the occurrence in the head, illustration in the center and large initial in the foot, the alphabet is complete, some letters have up to five cards and occurrences (other cards copied later are added), matched with 91 cards of letters and numbers lithographed in black: 42 on white background, 49 on yellow background.
The "Journal de l'imprimerie et de la librairie" indicates, in 1835, the authorization of the sale of four lithographed plates published at Amonier, rue Saint-Martin, n° 255, bearing this title. They are indicated as checkerboard game, lotto game and goose game.
Exceptional box, complete, with its original glass in perfect condition. Some damages to the embossed frieze framing the glass.
Live Thursday 16 March 2023・14:00 (Europe/Paris)
Lot no. 204

[Game]. Alphabet Patience and Joujou. Sold at the factory of Instructive and Amusing games in Paris. [Amonier. About 1835]. Cardboard box with glass lid (22.5 x 16 x 2.8 cm) separated into two compartments. Edges of yellow paper and black decorated paper, embossed and gilded frieze in frame. It contains a puzzle cut out alphabet book, in period colors (19.8 x 26 cm), 50 illustrated letter cards (4 x 2.7 cm) and 91 letter cards (2 x 2 cm), blue and pink marbled paper reverse. Rare game box including : A lithographed alphabet book on laid paper and stenciled in a frame, mounted on a thin wooden board and cut into a puzzle. Each numbered letter, twenty-five letters, no Ws, has the lower case letter at the top and the name of an occurrence separated into syllables at the bottom. Alphabet cards also lithographed and colored separated in three parts: name of the occurrence in the head, illustration in the center and large initial in the foot, the alphabet is complete, some letters have up to five cards and occurrences (other cards copied later are added), matched with 91 cards of letters and numbers lithographed in black: 42 on white background, 49 on yellow background. The "Journal de l'imprimerie et de la librairie" indicates, in 1835, the authorization of the sale of four lithographed plates published at Amonier, rue Saint-Martin, n° 255, bearing this title. They are indicated as checkerboard game, lotto game and goose game. Exceptional box, complete, with its original glass in perfect condition. Some damages to the embossed frieze framing the glass.

Estimate
€600 - €700
Result
€750
Buyer's premium
25%
[Game]. Alphabet Patience and Joujou. Sold at the factory of Instructive and Amusing games in Paris. [Amonier. About 1835]. Cardboard box with glass lid (22.5 x 16 x 2.8 cm) separated into two compartments. Edges of yellow paper and black decorated paper, embossed and gilded frieze in frame. It contains a puzzle cut out alphabet book, in period colors (19.8 x 26 cm), 50 illustrated letter cards (4 x 2.7 cm) and 91 letter cards (2 x 2 cm), blue and pink marbled paper reverse. Rare game box including : A lithographed alphabet book on laid paper and stenciled in a frame, mounted on a thin wooden board and cut into a puzzle. Each numbered letter, twenty-five letters, no Ws, has the lower case letter at the top and the name of an occurrence separated into syllables at the bottom. Alphabet cards also lithographed and colored separated in three parts: name of the occurrence in the head, illustration in the center and large initial in the foot, the alphabet is complete, some letters have up to five cards and occurrences (other cards copied later are added), matched with 91 cards of letters and numbers lithographed in black: 42 on white background, 49 on yellow background. The "Journal de l'imprimerie et de la librairie" indicates, in 1835, the authorization of the sale of four lithographed plates published at Amonier, rue Saint-Martin, n° 255, bearing this title. They are indicated as checkerboard game, lotto game and goose game. Exceptional box, complete, with its original glass in perfect condition. Some damages to the embossed frieze framing the glass.
Sale Thursday 16 March 2023・14:00 (Europe/Paris)
Sale location coming soon 3, rue Favart 75002 Paris