Goose Game - 17402 | Collections

Object Title	Jeu Chemin de Fer
Object Number:	17402
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	French
Provenience:	France Metz
Maker:	P. Didion
Date Made:	ca. 1894
Early Date:	1869
Late Date:	1895
Section:	Historic
Materials:	Paper
Inscription Language:	French Language
Credit Line:	Gift of Henry Carrington Bolton, 1895
Other Number:	177 - Other Number

Description

paper sheet with sprialing trail of blocks numbered 1-63. Pictures in each block depict train journey. Directions in French. 2 dice according to rules

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Chess and Playing-Cards (18 Sep 1895 - 31 Dec 1895)

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Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Culin, Robert S. 1898. Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the Unites States National Museum in connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia 1895.. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 843

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