Artistic Lottery. Geography & History, Circa 1870

[GEOGRAPHY. TRAVEL]. Artistic lotto. Geography & History. Paris: Jullien, sd [ca 1870]. Dimensions of the box: 36x30x6 cm; dimensions of the cartons: 20.5x12.5 cm. Opening of the bag of tokens torn, walls of the interior compartments detached. Wooden and cardboard box in the shape of a book bound in red percaline with clasp, with covers decorated with frames (thick and thin fillets, Greek frieze and floral garland) in gold and black. The rules of the game are affixed to the inside cover. The inside of the box is divided into 4 compartments containing a red silk bag with 98 wooden tokens, each bearing the name of a department and its prefecture, 30 chromolithographed and gilded cards, each bearing the representation of a group of departments surrounded by a composition on the theme of regional specialties: products, sites and monuments, coats of arms, costumes, famous people, etc., and a red cardboard cup. Without the "Legends of the artistic lotto" booklet but complete with all its elements.