Neues Zitatenlotto : [realia] ein unterhaltendes, lehrreiches Spiel.

Neues Zitatenlotto : [realia] ein unterhaltendes, lehrreiches Spiel.

Translated title: New Quotations Picture Bingo

[Berlin] : Aus dem Verlage der Sala-Spiele mit dem Rotsiege [approximately 1905]

1 item ; box: 31 x 32 x 3 cm

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Title from printed rules sheet. Date from Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf catalog.

"No. 4767"

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From dealer's description: "Game of Quotations 31. [GAME - SILHOUETTES.] Neues Zitaten- Lotto. Berlin, Sala, ca 1905. € 2500 Boxed game (312 x 328 mm), containing 6 chromolithograph boards, each with the silhouette portrait of a famous author, with 16 cut-out puzzle pieces, which combine to form the portrait; each piece is numbered and has a literary quote printed to verso; 8vo instruction sheet with the rules of the game; lacking one small puzzle piece for Goethe; housed in the original publisher’s decorative box, lid a little worn, but holding. An innovative educational game where the participants are tasked with identifying the author of the quotations printed on the 96 small silhouette puzzle pieces. The quotes are from the works of Goethe, Heine, Shakespeare, Schiller, Lessing and Uhland respectively. Each silhouette is divided into sixteen numbered pieces and marked with a quotation or its origin from the corresponding work, which are thus memorised by the players. The ‘Neues Zitaten Lotto’ or ‘quotation lotto’ was produced by the Berlin games manufacturer Adolf Sala, who exported part of his production to France. The square game boards with the silhouette outline of the authors are distributed amongst the six players. The small puzzle pieces are shuffled in a bag and drawn one by one, the quote is read and the author identified and placed on the correct silhouette board. The player who first manages to identify all the quotes of ‘his/her’ author, wins. Apparently a fashionable pursuit amongst the educated bourgeoisie at the time. "

Ordered from Susanne Schulz-Falster, D9630, 2023-04-19, Catalog "Silhouettes & Paper Cuts", item #31.

Purchase made possible by The Karen Gundersheimer Acquisitions Endowment.

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