Old saussine geographical atlas in the form of a set of cubes around 1900

Old puzzle game wooden cubes saussine in his wooden box: geographical atlas france, europe, world map. Old collectible game. Rare copy of saussine large format geographical atlas in the form of complete cubes: 6 color model plates on paper and 48 wooden cubes of the 6 model maps: europe, america, africa, asia, france. Very beautiful old educational game of late nineteenth century. The large house saussine has produced several atlases including this large format in cubes; they are most often in the form of a puzzle, sometimes in the form of cubes. The maps are drawn up by g. Pauly; editor: a. Lesot. Often the cards are not creations of game publishers, they are borrowed from other printers. They are cut into a set of cubes. The charm of these games today lies mainly in the illustrations of the lithograph boxes. The original wooden box is decorated with a beautiful chromolithography in good condition. Good condition given its great age: very satisfactory state for this educational game. Dimensions of the 48 cubes: 5 X 5 cm. Box size: l 42 cm X d 33cm X h 6 cm. Weight: 4 kg.

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