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 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