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Lot 70000 – THE EARLIEST RECORDED PHILATELIC GAME: 1868ca. Memory game of about 210 wooden pieces featuring reproductions of stamps

THE EARLIEST RECORDED PHILATELIC GAME: 1868ca. Memory game of about 210 wooden pieces featuring reproductions of stamps
Lot 70000 – THE EARLIEST RECORDED PHILATELIC GAME: 1868ca. Memory game of about 210 wooden pieces featuring reproductions of stamps
Large Lots and Collections
Price realised
3’600 EUR
Estimate
3’000 – 4’000 EUR
Auction date
Thu 3 Dec 2020 at 20:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

THE EARLIEST RECORDED PHILATELIC GAME

1868ca. Memory game of about 210 wooden pieces featuring reproductions of stamps printed on paper on one side and portions of a map on the reverse, the stamps with mostly European issues from 1862-68 but also issues from USA incl. locals, India, Canada, Mexico, Trinidad, etc., contained in a wooden box with an illustrated label showing the Coats of Arms of Great Britain, Austria, France, USA and Sitting Helvetia of Switzerland on the lid, along with trilingual “Brief-Marken / Postage Stamps / Timbres-Poste”, an extraordinary artefact, probably a unique item of early stamp collecting memorabilia

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