PAPER TOYS

"THE PORTRAITS - CARRICATURES"
German, circa 1850
A metamorphoses game with three (of four) sets of faces comprising of eight paper over wooden segments. In original box with sliding lid. Two pieces are restored. Lid slightly damaged.

14 x 14 x 2,7 cm

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"LOTTO DAUPHIN"
Possibly by G.W.Faber German, circa 1850
Original paper covered box with sliding lid showing title in German, French and English. Four wooden playing boards with the numbers 1-90 and four paper boxes containing various colored pawns and markers. 90 wooden numbers and paper description of the game.

35 x 25,5 x 8 cm

€ 475contact me
"CHINESE COLOUR AND ARCHITECTURAL PLAY"
G.W.Faber, German, circa 1845
Original paper covered box with sliding lid showing title in German, French and English. In the box different colored wooden tiles in various hapes and size. With paper examples. Six tiles missing.

17 x 17 x 1,5 cm

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A PAPER ARMY CAMP
French, circa 1860
Lithographed paper set of stand-up soldiers and army equipment, like tents, cannons, a kitchen, a campfire, etc. In the background a castle.

Soldier 9 cm, castle 23 cm high

€ 475contact me
A SET OF EIGHTY REBUS BLOCKS
Probably Alphonse Giroux, France, circa 1840
All hand colored paper covered wooden blocks. They show on all eight sides illustrations, musical notes, playing cards, names of French places and rivers, numbers and a geometric pattern. One of the blocks marked A.G.

Each block 2,2 x 2,2 x 2,2 cm

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"MOSAIC IN COLOURS"
German, circa 1845
Original paper covered box with sliding lid showing title in German, French, English and Italian. Inside the box multicolor triangular wooden pieces, complete. Lid slightly damaged.

13,5 x 13,5 x 1,4 cm

€ 150contact me
"LE KALEIDOSCOPE GROTESQUE"
H.Rousseau, French, circa 1865
A set of sixteen metamorphic figures. Lithographed paper over wood, each figure consisting of five segments. No box.

Each figure 16,5 x 11 x 0,7 cm

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AN ABC LEPORELLO
French, circa 1870
Hand colored illustrations with with spot egg-shell varnish. Below accompanying texts in French and English. Bound in a cardboard cover with the letter Z pasted on the front.

12 x 15 cm

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"THE ZOOLOGICAL LOTTERY"
German, circa 1860
Original wooden box with paper covered sliding lid showing title in German, French and English. Containing ten hand colored lottery cards depicting various animals and 86 corresponding smaller cards with their names.

22,5 x 16 x 4 cm

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A PAIR OF MARTIN ENGELBRECHT PEEPSHOWS
Augsburg, circa 1760
Duodez size. Both sets consisting of six hand colored engraved panels. Showing a fight in the woods and a winter scene with skaters on the ice. Small damages.

9 x 7 cm

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"RIDDLES IN NUMBERS"
German, circa 1850
Original paper slipcase with an illustration of a magician and the title in three languages containing seven different numbered cards, complete.

5,9 x 4,2 x 0,5 cm

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A PUZZLE "THE NEW POLKA"
German, circa 1850
Original wooden box with an illustration on the sliding lid, containing a jig saw puzzle showing people at a carnaval and two dancing bears. Small damages.

20,5 x 16 cm

€ 100contact me
"THE MERRY DANCERS IN THE MOUNTAINS"
Verlags Eigenthum G.M. circa 1850
This "Charming theatre of nature" consists of an amount of stand-up figures in regional outfits dancing and drinking and making music. One large scenic view that measures when unfolded 59 cm x 22,5 cm.
Cut out coloured figures from embossed cardboard, with spot egg-shell varnish. A large amount of the figures is reinforced at the back. One figure missing head. Only the lid cover is original.

34 x 26,5 x 3 cm.

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"OMBRES CHINOISES" shadow theater
French, by Mauclair Dacier, Paris n.d. circa 1903.
A chromolithographed box containing a wooden framed theater stage, to be displayed in front of a light source, and outfitted with a double-crank system and two rolls of paper which can be scrolled through, the paper depicting comic shadow/silhouette scenes and contains swaths of red, purple and blue paper with black hatch marks, the theater frame with a slot for six chromolithographed punched paper scenes, a blank screen for shadow figure plays and scenes. Descriptive label inside of lid. Some ears and minor soiling, wear, and rubbing to box. 49,5 x 38 x 10 cm

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OPTIQUE No.4 PROMENADE DE LONGCHAMP
Fench, circa 1827
Accordion-folding peepshow with four cut-out panels, hand coloured etching. Label at the back reads: "GARDET, Md Papetier, Rue Vivienne No.12, A PARIS". A small piece is missing, it's visible but not very disturbing. No slipcase.

14 x 12 cm

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EIGHTEEN COPTOGRAPHIC IMAGES
Jos Scholtz among others , German, 19th Century and self cut images.
Printed and cut paper, famous figures, animals, alphabet letters, a ship, a soldier, an angel etc. When held up to the light, sharp and realistic images become visible. In contemporary envelope and slipcase.

Largest image 15,5 x 12 cm

€ 250contact me
"LA CHASSE" STAND-UP FIGURES
French, circa 1840
Hand colored engraved card cut-outs of animals and hunters with wooden bases. Consists of fifteen pieces. Original cardboard box. I don't know if the set is complete.

19,5 x 13 x 3 cm

€ 450contact me
A BELL AND HAMER GAME
Dutch, circa 1840
Original marbled cardboard box containing five hand colored engraved cards and a complete set of eight black dice. The cover reads "HAMER" and "SCHIMMEL-SPEL" and has an illustration of two blacksmiths at work. Box slightly damaged.

13,5 x 8,5 x 1,2 cm

€ 125contact me
AN EDUCATIONAL JIGSAW PUZZLE
N. Carpenter, London, ca.1850
"The comparative size of forty birds, from the Ostrich to the Humming Bird". With hand colored example, written description, in contemporary wooden box.

37 x 23 cm

€ 250contact me
A BIRDS SHOOTING GAME
German, circa 1850
Original box with sliding lid is when turned over the base for a pole that carries a paper over wooden circle containing different birds, three birds replaced.

22,5 x 20 x 6 cm

€ 350contact me
"AUTHENTIC MEMOIRS OF THE LITTLE MAN
AND THE LITTLE MAID"
With some interesting particulars of their lives.
London: B. Tabart, dated May 1816. Printed for John Souter, School Library, No.73, North Side of St.Paul's Church-Yard.
Illustrated with 12 hand-colored plates and 10 pages with music. Foxed

13,5 x 12 cm

€ 300contact me
A LOTTERY GAME OF SIX CLASSES
Dutch, circa 1800
A game with solely engraved numbers, no pictures. Ninety lotnumbers, ninety smal numbers and a large amount of price cards in six different classes. Original marbled paper box. Game seems to have never been played with.

9,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm

€ 250contact me
A JIGSAW PUZZLE "HISTOIRE NATURELLE EN 64 PLANCHES"
Paris, circa 1890
Original box containing three puzzles of 77 pieces with colored lithographic illustrations of animals and people of various races, complete, in the style of Buffon.

48 x 35 x 6 cm

€ 400contact me
A LOTO DAUPHIN
French, early 19th century
A green cardboard box containing eight shelves with numbers and a small drawer with colored bone pawns and markers.

27 x 24 x 30 cm

€ 300contact me
"DE ARK VAN NOACH"
Tine van berken and H.J.W. Becht
Amsterdam, ca.1894
An 8vo children's book, soft cover, eight pages, tinted and color lithography illustrations. Small damages and repairs.

17,5 x 13,5 cm

€ 125contact me
"DORPSGEZICHTEN AAN DE MAAS"
JIGSAW PUZZLE
Moolenijzer, Amsterdam, ca.1800
Original wooden box with hand colored and saw pieces, one is missing, comes with example on linen.

21 x 18 x 4 cm

€ 275contact me
"COGNAC MET ZOUT"
Dutch, circa 1860
Paper sleeve containing 24 lithographed cards with figures in different colors, 24 so-called recipe cards with humorous texts and a manual satirical game inspired by William Lee.

9 x 6 x 2 cm

€ 300contact me
LES JOCKOS - SINGES SAVANTES
Saussine, France, ca.1900
Magnetic game in original cardboard box, not in working order.
33,5 cm x 33,5 cm

€ 300contact me

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