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Le Jeu du Cheval Blanc [game].

Accession number
PML 87105
Published
[s.l. : s.n., ca. 1837]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Game comprising five hand-colored engraved cards, one of which is a white horse, a sheet of rules, eight dice, and twenty-two round glass counters (should be 21 according to Gumuchian).
One of the cards shows a bell dated 1837 with the name A. Monier.
Dice marked 1-6 and 2 with figures.
Description
1 game. ; handcol. ill. (engravings) ; box: 15 x 22 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original decorated paper box; lithograph on upper lid of woman and children playing the game; embossed gilt trim around edges. In a slipcase by Julia Wightman of half rose levant and sides covered with Nuremberg flock paper (design of horse and animals) dated 1946.
Classification
Department