Table game
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1840
Materials
Cardboard and paper
Measurements
Box - 245 mm (length); 162 mm (width); 31 mm (height), Paper sheet - 143 mm (width); 179 mm (height), Each piece of facial feature and torso (min) - 21 mm (height), Each piece of facial feature and torso (max) - 92 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670710
Summary
A broken rectangular blue cardboard box (containing a game called 'Jeu Des Mosaiques Humaines') decorated with embossed gold coloured paper strips on the removable lid. In the centre of the lid is a printed paper label which reads 'Jeu, Des Mosaiques Humaines, Propre A Faire Toutes Sortes De Portraits, Sans Savoir Dessiner. Contenant Vingt Coiffures, Fronts, Nez, Bouches, Mentons, Habillemens et 40 Yeux, tous de formes differentes en, se raccordant parfaitemen[]'. The interior of the box is subdivided into three shaped compartments. Inside the box are four rectangular sheets of paper onto each of which have been glued a forehead, a nose, eyes, a mouth, a headdress hair style and the upper half of a torso. Two are male, two female. Also inside the box are three more female torsos and three more male torsos, eight male and eight female headdress/hairstyles, six foreheads, two noses, eighteen eyes and ten mouths. Total number of items is 66.