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Der anthmuthige Herr, in vielerlei Gestalten-- eine Metamorphose L'homme gracieux, avec beaucoup de métamorphoses = The graceful gentleman, in a great variety of metamorphoses = Il signore grazioso, con molti metamorfosi
Title
Der anthmuthige Herr, in vielerlei Gestalten-- eine Metamorphose [game] = L'homme gracieux, avec beaucoup de métamorphoses = The graceful gentleman, in a great variety of metamorphoses = Il signore grazioso, con molti metamorfosi.
Published
[Germany? : s.n., ca. 1840?]
Physical Description
1 game (18 cards) : cardboard, col. ; 3 x 10 cm. (6 cards), 4 x 10 cm. (6 cards) and 8 x 10 cm. (6 cards) + 1 box (16 x 10 x 3 cm.)
Local Notes
BEIN 2006 271: Written in ms. on bottom of box: From my dear mama, her box when a little girl.
Notes
Title from top of box.
Top of box and figures are hand colored and varnished to give the effect of enamelling.
The accompanying box contains three internal sections of varying sizes into which the cards for, respectively, the heads, bodies and legs may be placed.
Summary
A game consisting of six male costumed card figures, each horizontally divided into three cards (one for the head, one for the body, one for the legs), that can be interchanged to form a variety of new figures. The original six figures may be described as: a pirate, a concertina player, a Tyrolean peasant, a Chinese dancer, a French soldier and a Turkish warrior.
Variant and related titles
Homme gracieux, avec beaucoup de métamorphoses.
Graceful gentleman, in a great variety of metamorphoses.
Signore grazioso.
Format
Other
Language
German
Added to Catalog
April 18, 2006
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature.
Metamorphic pictures - Germany - 1840.
Also listed under
Germany.
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