Accession number:
PML 88492
Published:
Paris : L[eon] S[aussine], [ca. 1890]
Description:
1 game : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 26.8 x 35.5 x 4.5 cm (box)
Credit:
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes:
Title and imprint from lid of box.
Set of twelve lotto cards, each depicting two pairs of characters engaged in captioned situations (such as "Cherchez le chat", "Au fond de la forêt de Bondy", and "Vive le vin! Vive ce jus divin!") Each character has a moveable arm which hides a lottery number. Also, two pink cloth bags each containing 28 glass counters in white and pastel colors, and 48 turned wooden counters, numbered 1-48, as well as a paper tray lined with pink and gilt fleur-de-lys paper. Directions for playing the game lacking.
Pasted inside the lid of the box is a lithographed print that seems to advertise another game by Saussine, Loto Grotesque.
Binding:
Publisher's brown and pink-rimmed cartonnage box with chromolithographed print pasted on the lid, depicting two children at play, and with the title stamped in black ink.
Provenance:
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
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