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231 - The Wonderful Mouse. Magnetic game. Paris, L. Saussine, late 19th century. Lidded box, 23.7 x 28.7 cm, covered with an engraving of an amusing family of mice and decorative papers (box in fragile condition; upper lid loose; lower lid coming loose). Inside is a glass enclosure that protects a small white mouse, which can run around when the magic card (stored at the bottom of the game) is held up to the glass. The mouse stops in front of one of the 12 round boxes, each containing a number of predictions or observations. A fun cardboard magnetic divination game made in France by the leading game publisher Louis Saussine. With an instruction label inside the top lid: “Place the question you have chosen near the words: ‘On the side of the question,’ and the little mouse will show you the answer.”

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Estimation

€150 - 200

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30%

The Wonderful Mouse. Magnetic game. Paris, L. Saussine, late 19th century. Lidded box, 23.7 x 28.7 cm, covered with an engraving of an amusing family of mice and decorative papers (box in fragile condition; upper lid loose; lower lid coming loose). Inside is a glass enclosure that protects a small white mouse, which can run around when the magic card (stored at the bottom of the game) is held up to the glass. The mouse stops in front of one of the 12 round boxes, each containing a number of predictions or observations. A fun cardboard magnetic divination game made in France by the leading game publisher Louis Saussine. With an instruction label inside the top lid: “Place the question you have chosen near the words: ‘On the side of the question,’ and the little mouse will show you the answer.”

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Auction details

Prints & drawings, photographs, comics
Wednesday, December 2
01:00 PM
rue aux Laines, 19/2
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

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Arenberg Auctions +3225441055 info@arenbergauctions.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 49,000 lots published

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