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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 115 - closed 6/21/2006

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Lot #61: "Jeu Geographique - Loterie des Deux Hemispheres [Game]" A.L. & Cie

Antique map chart Jeu Geographique Loterie des Deux Hemispheres Game
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Estimate:
$250.00 - $300.00
This lot was withdrawn

Lot 61
By: A.L. & Cie
Subject: Cartographic Miscellany - Game
Date: 1880

Publication:

Condition: B
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Color: printed color

Size: 23.5 x 12.8 inches
59.7 x 32.6 cm

Create your own map game! A double hemisphere map is mounted onto a wooden box. Each hemisphere has a spinner at the equator with the letters of the alphabet, and brass brads marking 360°, in 10° degree sections, 180° to each side. We have no idea how the game was originally played. But it is a fascinating cartographic artifact all the same.

Some general surface soil on map and some paper chipping on box sides. Short crack is developing at lower left, just entering map.

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