Mosaic Amusement

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Germany (made) Germany (sold) Great Britain (sold)

Part of a mosiac-amusement set that consists of 13 wooden pieces (from a set of 16) each consisting of a square formed by two triangles one of dark-toned the other of light-toned wood joined together, an engraved key sheet of diagrams and an engraved sheet of instructions. All within a wooden box with a sliding lid with an engraved pictorial label in German and English.

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Categories	Children & Childhood Entertainment & Leisure Games
Object type	Mosaic kit
Brief description	Part of a mosiac-amusement set that consists of 13 wooden pieces (from a set of 16), an engraved key sheet of diagrams and an engraved sheet of instructions. All within a wooden box with a sliding lid with an engraved pictorial label in German and English. Anonymous, German, ca.1825.
Physical description	Part of a mosiac-amusement set that consists of 13 wooden pieces (from a set of 16) each consisting of a square formed by two triangles one of dark-toned the other of light-toned wood joined together, an engraved key sheet of diagrams and an engraved sheet of instructions. All within a wooden box with a sliding lid with an engraved pictorial label in German and English.
Subject depicted	Games
Bibliographic reference	Victoria & Albert Museum : Department of Prints & Drawings and Department of Paintings : Accessions 1954. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. London. 1963.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1852B-1954

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O585679/mosaic-amusement-mosaic-kit-unknown/

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