Lot 60846 – THE EARLIEST RECORDED PHILATELIC GAME: 1868ca. Memory game of 70 wooden pieces featuring reproductions of stamps

ONE OF THE EARLIEST RECORDED PHILATELIC GAMES

1868ca. Memory game of 70 wooden pieces featuring reproductions of stamps printed on paper on one side and portions of a map on the reverse, the stamps with issues from around 1867-68 incl. GB, Russia, Sweden, Greece Norway, Australian States, Uruguay, Brazil, USA German States, Switzerland, etc., very similar to the game we sold in December 2020 but with “3D” blocks to join the stamp designs together on the sides, in a later box but still with the original lid, an extraordinary artefact, a gorgeous item of early stamp collecting memorabilia.