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Set of La Fontaine's Fables. (Mauclair Dacier. Paris. circa 1895) Set of La Fontaine's Fables. (Mauclair Dacier. Paris. circa 1895). Wood-cardboard box, size 44 x 39 x 5.5 cm. Colored lithograph on the lid: statue of the fabulist in the foreground of a large public garden (gazebo, strollers, children...); circular medallion in each corner depicting a fable: The Fox and the Stork, The Crow and the Fox, The Wolf and the Lamb, The Oyster and the Pleaders. The box contains four color lithographed plates, glued to wood and cut into jigsaw puzzles. A puzzle game based on La Fontaine's Fables. Each board features twelve illustrated fables, each topped by a title. In the four corners of each illustration is a number. This is in fact a reuse of cards from a lotto game on the theme of the Fables, published in the 1890s by Mauclair Dacier. The numbers (from 1 to 96) were used for the lotto; in this new application, they have no further use. The illustration on the cover depicts the Ranelagh gardens in Paris, near the Bois de Boulogne; the statue of the fabulist was removed by the Germans during the Occupation and melted down (a new version was found a few years ago). Water stain in a lower corner of the lid; the young owner of the game inscribed her name in the upper part above the image.

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Set of La Fontaine's Fables. (Mauclair Dacier. Paris. circa 1895) Set of La Fontaine's Fables. (Mauclair Dacier. Paris. circa 1895). Wood-cardboard box, size 44 x 39 x 5.5 cm. Colored lithograph on the lid: statue of the fabulist in the foreground of a large public garden (gazebo, strollers, children...); circular medallion in each corner depicting a fable: The Fox and the Stork, The Crow and the Fox, The Wolf and the Lamb, The Oyster and the Pleaders. The box contains four color lithographed plates, glued to wood and cut into jigsaw puzzles. A puzzle game based on La Fontaine's Fables. Each board features twelve illustrated fables, each topped by a title. In the four corners of each illustration is a number. This is in fact a reuse of cards from a lotto game on the theme of the Fables, published in the 1890s by Mauclair Dacier. The numbers (from 1 to 96) were used for the lotto; in this new application, they have no further use. The illustration on the cover depicts the Ranelagh gardens in Paris, near the Bois de Boulogne; the statue of the fabulist was removed by the Germans during the Occupation and melted down (a new version was found a few years ago). Water stain in a lower corner of the lid; the young owner of the game inscribed her name in the upper part above the image.

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