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(ephemera) . TOURING (CHILDREN'S GAME)
Parker Brothers 1926. The famous automobile card game. Complete (99 cards plus instructions.) In original color pictorial box 5x4x1 inches. Box a bit brown but intact. Some of the pictorial cover on the box has rubbed off in places but overall box is Good. Playing cards inside are like new but slightly warped. (a3137)
$35.00 Toy (Japanese children's alphabet blocks) . COLLECTION OF 44 REAL WOOD JAPANESE ALPHABET BLOCKS
Each block is 2x2 inches and 1/2 inch thick (5 x 5 x .5 cm) with kanji, roots and script on one side and color picture and label in western lettering and Japanese lettering on other side. Blocks are hard to date but appear to be about 70 years old. VG. Set of 44 blocks: (a67214)
$125.00 (movable chromolithographs) . SET OF 8 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD PANELS (8X9 INCHES) CUT AWAY WITH MOVABLE PARTS IN THE MIDDLE TO CREATE SHADOW IMAGES ON WALL OR SCREEN
mid19th century. Full color. Each panel has pictures around the edge and a pair of hands in the middle. The panels were designed to be held up to a light source which would then project an image on a wall which would appear to move as the person holding the panel moved a tab up and down. The images are the same as those made by holding one's fingers in a certain position to make an animal or person. The panels are labeled: Our Bunny, Bossy, Hiawatha, Vic the Greyhound, The Judge, Jumbo (elephant), Billy Whiskers, and The Soldier Boy. VG, with only very minor wear on some corners except for one panel which as half of one finger torn away. A great example of a forgotten pastime. A poignant reminder--children and adults gathered together in the evening watching humorous shadows--of a gentler era than our own. (a6431)
$85.00 (puzzle) . CHROMOLITHOGRAPH PUZZLE OF 2 FRIGHTENED HORSES RUNNING AWAY FROM SPEEDING LOCOMOTIVE IN BACKGROUND
n.d. (c.1850). Puzzle measures 7x9 inches, 14 pieces (complete), full color, stiff cardboard. Pieces not cut zigsaw, i.e, with interlocking tabs, but straight edge-geometric shapes. Good. (a9893)
$75.00 (safety) . RECOMMENDED VOLUNTARY PRODUCT STANDARD TS 215b - TOY SAFETY
1975 U.S. Department of Commerce. 4to., 50pp., original printed wraps. Depository library stamp on cover and title; ink numbers on cover. VG. (a62652)
$45.00 Blasche, Bernhard Heinrich . PAPYRO-PLASTICS, OR THE ART OF MODELLING IN PAPER; BEING AN INSTRUCTIVE AMUSEMENT FOR YOUNG PERSONS OF BOTH SEXES
London 1825 2nd Boosey and Sons. Second edition, greatly enlarged and improved. From the German by D. Boileau. Sq.12mo., (4.75 X 6 inches), 102pp., 22 plates (several of which fold out), attractive hand-painted lithograph of a (presumably) paper castle as frontispiece, bluish gray paper covered boards with printed illustration and cover title mounted on front. Book guides children how to use a compass, ruler and geometry to construct elaborate buildings in paper--a castle, bridge, house with a gable in front, church, windmill and so on. Truly high IQ fun! Good, somewhat worn, lacks front blank (opens to half-title), top corner of half-title professionally repaired. (a51788)
$340.00 Maclagan, Robert Craif . THE GAMES AND DIVERSIONS OF ARGYLESHIRE
London 1901 1st Folklore Society. Hardcover. Octavo, 270pp., index, cloth. institution stamp on verso of front blank and on title page. VG, small stain around edges of blank end paper; cover cloth bright and crisp, excellent condition. Original book, not a reprint. (a16654)
$75.00 Tarasov, B.U. . MEKHNICHESKAYA IGRUSHKA SAMODELKA (MECHANICAL TOY CONSTRUCTION)
1937. Entirely in Russian. 8vo., 42pp., line drawings, color wraps with boy holding toy airplane aloft. Fair, leaves browned and brittle, wraps chipping on edges. (a13592)
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