A PAPER DOLL "THE DOLL"
German, circa 1850
Original cardboard box with the title in three languages and an illustration of a seated lady on the cover, containing a paper doll, six colored dresses with spot egg-shell varnish and two headgear. One side of lid replaced. The neck of paper doll reattached.
Box 15 x 15 x 2,5 cm
PAPER TOYS
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€ 525 -
"THE LION IS COMING" BOARD GAME
G(ustav) N(eiff), Berlin, circa 1850
Original cardboard box with the title in German, French and English and an hectic city view of people running away for a lion on the cover, containing a folded hand colored board game and two bone dice. No instructions. The four sides of the lid replaced. The game plan reinforced with tape.
20 x 17 x 2,5 cmSOLD -
"BRANDWEER-SPEL"
Adolf Sala, Berlin, circa 1890, publisher number 4344
Original cardboard box containing a folded wooden/paper structure. When opened it reveals a paperlitho burning house, seperate trees, a fire brigade, firemen climbing in ropes, and figures in need. Numbered cards 1-7, a dice and paper playing coins.The object of the game is to throw the correct number of eyes so that your firefighter can climb up and saves your figure from the window. With instructions in Dutch. Some items are missing, some are damaged or restored. Very rare.
Box 49,5 x 35 x 7 cmRESERVED -
"JEU DES AVENTURES DE TÉLÉMAQUE"
Paris, circa 1825
Complete set of 25 hand coloured cards depicting the story of Telemachus, a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope and a central character in Homer's Odyssey. Some cards reinforced with paper, original slipcase damaged.
9 x 6 x 1,7 cmSOLD -
A PEEPSHOW OF THE HARBOUR OF AMSTERDAM
Martin Engelbrecht, Augsburg, circa 1760
A set of six hand coloured and cut out engravings.
14 x 9 cmSOLD -
"THE GAME OF THE NATIONS OR
WHAT COUNTRY DO I BELONG TO?"
Abel Klinger, Nuremberg, circa 1855
Original cardboard box with the title in English, German, French and Italian and an illustration of an African horserider fighting a tiger on the cover. Containing sixteen numbered cards from 3 - 18 and one card titled "the captain". Each card is hand colored with spot egg-shell varnish and shows a different people with accompanying caption. With instructions and three bone dice.
12 x 7,5 x 2,8 cmSOLD -
A DEVOTIONAL CHILDREN'S PRINT
"Eating the forbidden tree fruit"
Rudolf Abits, Dutch, circa 1870
Hand colored paper with illustrations from the bible in medallions accompanied by the passages of scripture. Depicted in the centre Adam and Eve in paradise garden. Two water stains and a small piece missing. Framed.
41 x 32 cmSOLD -
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€ 280 
"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€ 475
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€ 125-
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.€ 250 -
"THE AMUSING JUMPING-GAME"
Abel Klinger Nuremberg, circa 1850
Original cardboard box with on the cover a hand colored lithographed illustration of a boy and a girl playing the game and four horseriders in the corners and the title in English, Italin, German and French. Containing a folded hand coloured boardgame and 32 wooden game pieces. Box slightly damaged, game board held together by linen tape. No instruction manual.
22,5 x 12 x 2,5 cmSOLD -
"LE PROSOPOTROPE GROTESQUE"
Rousseau editeur and H.Jannin lith, Paris, circa 1850
Original cardboard box with on the cover a lithographed illustration by Bommier of a family playing the game, the title in French and an explanation of the Greek words προσοπος (Visage) and τροπος (Changement). Box containing paper over wooden figures, all segmented in eight pieces to form different characters using eyes, chins, noses, necks, bodies etc. With two accompanying example sheets. Two pieces replaced, one missing.
32 x 24 x 2,5 cmSOLD 
"NEW COMIC FIGURES OF A CAVALIER"
German, circa 1840
Paper over wooden box with sliding lid. On the cover a picture of a horserider and title in English, German and French. Inside nine paper over wooden blocks depicting six different images of figures on the back of animals. Complete set with all six lithographed and with spot egg-shell varnish paper examples.
13,5 x 13,5 x 5 cmSOLD
"CITIZEN OF THE WORLD" PAPER DOLL
German, circa 1850
Original cardboard box with a handcolored lithographed illustration of different nationalities, containing a white and verso a black man with ten separate costumes and headgear (two missing). Some damages, 0ne side of the cover replaced.
24,5 x 18 x 2,5 cmSOLD-
"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€ 350 -
"LE FÉE DU TIR"
J. Tranche ed Paris and A. Leroy imp Paris, circa 1850
Text on inside cover reads: "1. Ranger les 4 personnages et fermer leurs coiffures de maniere a voir Rothomago, Pierrot, le Muselman et la Nourrice. 2. Tirer sur le haut des coiffures pour faire changer les personnages". Two hand-colored lithographed paper shooting targets and a wood/metal gun in (later fabricated) box with original lid. When hit, the head of the figure flips backwards and the body forwards showing another figure. Small damages.
36,5 x 27 cmSOLD 
"LE JARDIN DES PLANTES"
Les Oiseaux
French, circa 1845
Original cardboard box containing hand colored paperlitho scene of a zoo, with fifteen various birds, cages, gates, trees and bushes. One bird is missing its head, box slightly damaged, part of gold trim on cover box missing.
24 x 17 x 3,5 cmSOLD
"NEWEST IMAGE-REBUSES"
G.N. Gustav Neiff ?, German, circa 1850
Sixteen hand painted engraved cards with the black and white examples in original cardboard box. On the cover title in four languages. "With these 16 parts you can compound 8 different animals".
13 x 7 x 1,5 cmSOLD
