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Cycling: A Fascination Game

Cycling: A Fascination Game
Title
Cycling: A Fascination Game
Date 
ca. 1900
Medium 
Cardboard, paper, metal
Dimensions 
board: 15 x 29 5/8 in. ( 38.1 x 75.2 cm ) box: 2 1/8 x 15 5/8 x 10 3/4 in. ( 5.4 x 39.7 x 27.3 cm )
Description 
"Cycling: A Fascination Game" board game with a paper covered cardboard tri-fold board, four metal cyclist playing pieces, and twenty-seven chromolithographed playing cards with images of matches, lanterns, guns, etc. in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover with an image of a woman standing beside a bicycle; box cover printed, "CYCLING/ A FASCINATING/ GAME/ by JAP." board chromolithographed with a winding, numbered track starting at a tavern and ending at a house, with images on many of the squares; board inscribed, "Designed in England by Jap. Published by J. W. S. & S. New-York and produced at their works in Bavaria."
Credit Line 
The Liman Collection
Ob