GRAND PORTE-DOCUMENT

LARGE BRIEFCASE
including prints such as old maps ( 2), Epinal pictures, games and popular images presented in a large blackened leather library portfolio on a black lacquered wooden frame, with a ball-and-socket mechanism for opening.
19th century (worn and without bellows)
Total height: 123 cm Width: 61 cm


Also included:

- Premier tableau du jeu de Lindor ou Nain Jaune published and invented by the Parisian cartier Mandrou (1808), printed from a woodcut on a parchment sheet.
- Divinatory game: Le Petit Cartomancien: B.P. Grimaud, Paris, c. 1900
- Jeu de patience Grimaud, belgo-genois portrait, chromolithograph, gilded borders, plain pink spines| stamp 1890| 40 cards| 62 x 43 mm
- Jeu des Mousquetaires by Dubout, published by Philibert in 1954, incomplete 16 cards
- Jeu des Lunettiers 1949 printed by Draeger, incomplete 18 cards
- Jeu Indien end XIXème, incomplete, 31 cards
- 4 Seasons octagonal deck, average condition
- Victory game, military game on red-backed board
- Antique game board, Chasse et pêche, published by Coyen, Paris
- Jeu de l'Oie, featuring characters from Les Mystères de Paris (circa 1855), on wood engraved and colored by Dembour and Gangel
- Barrier game board showing the famous Polichinel and his troupe jumping the barriers (1868)
- Jeu de la laitière &| du Pot au Lait, Epinal imagery, Pellerin &| Cie imprimeur.