Title and imprint from enclosed booklet, "Regle du Jeu de Loto", which is housed, together with a modern translation of the "Rules" in English, in a modern slipcase in 1/4 brown morocco covered by brown decorated paper, signed JPW 1951.
The game, usually for 8 players, concists of: 8 wooden trays (30 x 27 cm), paper board pasted on, with the numbers 1-90 etched in black on a handcolored green and white background. At the bottom of each tray are two compartments for bone jetons, covered by a sliding wooden lid: the larger compartments each contain 24 handcolored bone jetons with holes in the center and handcolored in yellow, purple, pink, and green; the smaller compartments each contain 1 dolphin and 20 pins made of bone and in the same colors.
Original cardboard box (10 x 7.5 cm) covered with pink paper containing 119 bone pins in the same colors.
Basket I: (16 x 8 cm) containing 141 bone chips colored pink, green and yellow. Housed in JPW folding cardboard box covered with decorated brown paper and closed with pink ribbons.
Basket II: (25 x 13.5 cm) divided in 3 compartments containing 359 white chips. Housed in JPW folding cardboard box covered with decorated brown paper and closed with pink ribbons.
One white linen bag containing 90 wooden cones, numbered 1-90; a wooden paddle perforated by 15 holes to hold the cones when they have been drawn.
5 brown canvas bags with a total of 499 bone jetons: round with or without holes, rectangular, or triangular, some handcolored, others white.
8 small empty baskets (10 x 7.5 cm), one for each player.
Game of chance similar to bingo, created by the toymaker François Vaugeois in 1775, but the story goes that Louis XVI had the idea for the game to entertain his son, the Dauphin, cf. Allemagne.
Jeu de loto Dauphin