Petit Chien Savant [game].

Accession number: 
PML 88467
Published: 
Paris : L. Saussine, Editeur, [approximately 1865]
Description: 
1 game : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 21.9 x 27 x 5.2 cm
Credit: 
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes: 

Title from lid of box.
"Notice explicative: Pour consulter le PETIT CHIEN SAVANT, il faut, une fois la question choisie, poser cette palette bien au centre de la boîte, la question demandée sur le POINT INTERROGATIF (?). LE PETIT CHIEN SAVANT se met aussitôt à chercher, puis enfin il s'arrête devant une petite boîte contenant la résponse. Après en avoir pris connaissance, on la place SOUS les autres résponses en on referme la petite boîte. NOTA: La seconde palette répond aux jeux de mots, entre les boîtes."--inside of lid.
Magnetic game. Inside the box is a glass cover to which is attached a color lithographed sheet, with a circular hole in the middle, depicting two clowns and six circles lettered "Potage", "L'Experience", "La pluie", etc. Eight little boxes (1-8) each containing six numbered cards with different answers to a question, are arranged in a circle and attached to the glass around the see-through center (the boxes are not in numerical order). Beneath the glass is a magnetic poodle, which is free to revolve in the manner of a compass. It is mostly concealed by a circular color lithograph, lettered: "Demande?" on top. Two octagonal magnetic discs printed with eight questions each, are placed on "Demande?" and by turning the disc the magnetic poodle will point to a box that has the answers to the question on the disc.

Binding: 
In publisher's pictorial box. Its lid is decorated with a color lithograph depicting a circus scene with clowns and dogs.
Provenance: 
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Classification: 
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